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Search results for tag #cobol

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[?]ricardo :mastodon: ยป 🌐
@governa@fosstodon.org

A raycasting first-person shooter written in

github.com/icitry/FPS.cob

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    [?]Willing to cut a deal. . . ยป 🌐
    @vor@lgbtqia.space

    RE: disabled.social/@vlrny/1165408

    Not voting, as I was born

    In the community, I was , although I was born with and have always been . My dad was blind, and navigated everywhere with his . He ws part of an , and he traveled around the by air. His sister, my Aunt Buffy, was a for Sears in . She took me to her work once. We rode the with her , Ginger.

    This meant that it was tough to get away with "Blind kids can't. . ." unless I'd actually *tried*..

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    [?]Valerie Roney ยป 🌐
    @vlrny@disabled.social

    Thing I've been pondering:

    Would you be less afraid of becoming disabled (or if you are already sick and burned out, less afraid of accepting you are disabled) if you frequently saw disabled people in your community getting good care, being included, and living meaningful lives?

    Boosts appreciated for diverse reach. ๐Ÿ”„

    Yes:39
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      [?]Anthony ยป 🌐
      @abucci@buc.ci

      I posted about the Claude Code leak on LinkedIn and almost immediately someone attacked me about my criticism. They tried the "take a look at COBOL and get back to me" angle.

      Buddy. I've written COBOL. I spent several years working almost daily with a 3-million-line monstrosity of a COBOL program. I was working on another app that interfaced with it, but in that work I occasionally had to read the code and in a few cases modify it. Granted I haven't spent as much time looking at the leaked Claude Code source code (and won't lol), but nevertheless I confidently declare that Claude Code is worse. "Spaghetti code" doesn't come close to describing this thing.


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        [?]Anthony ยป 🌐
        @abucci@buc.ci

        A weird thing about being 50 is that there are programming languages that I've used regularly for longer than some of the software developers I work with have been alive. I first wrote BASIC code in the 1980s. The first time I wrote an expression evaluator--a fairly standard programming puzzle or homework--was in 1990. I wrote it in Pascal for an undergraduate homework assignment. I first wrote perl in the early 1990s, when it was still perl 4.036 (5.38.2 now). I first wrote java in 1995-ish, when it was still java 1.0 (1.21 now). I first wrote scala, which I still use for most things today, in 2013-ish, when it was still scala 2.8 (3.4.0 now). At various times I've been "fluent" in 8086 assembly, BASIC, C, Pascal, perl, python, java, scala; and passable in LISP/Scheme, Prolog, old school Mathematica, (early days) Objective C, matlab/octave, and R. I've written a few lines of Fortran and more than a few lines of COBOL that I ran in a production system once. I could probably write a bit of Haskell if pressed but for some reason I really dislike its syntax so I've never been enthusiastic about learning it well. I've experimented with Clean, Flix, Curry, Unison, Factor, and Joy and learned bits and pieces of each of those. I'm trying to decide whether I should try learning Idris, Agda, and/or Lean. I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a few languages. Bit of 6502 assembly long ago. Bit of Unix/Linux shell scripting languages (old enough to have lived and breathed tcsh before switching to bash; I use fish now mostly).

        When I say passable: in graduate school I wrote a Prolog interpreter in java (including parsing source code or REPL input), within which I could run the classic examples like append or (very simple) symbolic differentiation/integration. As an undergraduate I wrote a Mathematica program to solve the word recognition problem for context-free formal languages. But I'd need some study time to be able to write these languages again.

        I don't know what the hell prompted me to reminisce about programming languages. I hope it doesn't come off as a humblebrag but rather like old guy spinning yarns. I think I've been through so many because I'm never quite happy with any one of them and because I've had a varied career that started when I was pretty young.

        I guess I'm also half hoping to find people on here who have similar interests so I'm going to riddle this post with hashtags:


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