Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year agoNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldimagemessage-square141fedilinkarrow-up1808arrow-down142
arrow-up1766arrow-down1imageNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldPotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year agomessage-square141fedilink
minus-squareBestBouclettes@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoAlso, isn’t COBOL extremely fast ? Which is not necessarily true for newer languages
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoYou’re probably thinking of Fortran, which is still used for hardcore number crunching in areas like physics.
minus-squareHawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI think that’s mostly because of the systems COBOL usually runs on, not so much because of the language
Also, isn’t COBOL extremely fast ? Which is not necessarily true for newer languages
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You’re probably thinking of Fortran, which is still used for hardcore number crunching in areas like physics.
I think that’s mostly because of the systems COBOL usually runs on, not so much because of the language