Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year in a Row

Re:Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year in ... by pc86 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:14AM (#18076764)

I used to work at a healthcare company where about 1/3 of the development staff worked in RPG and COBOL day-to-day. A consultant came in to pitch them on a COBOL source control system, and from what I heard they had to spend most of the time explaining to these 60+ year olds what source control was before pitching the management on a 7-figure implementation for what was basically timestamped folders with copied of code inside.

When I left that company a few years after that, there was still no source control for the RPG or COBOL code.

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Re:Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year in ... by Xixi on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:34AM (#18076977)

I have to chime in and display my ignorance: what makes RPG or COBOL so special that git or mercurial could not simply be used for source control?

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Re:Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year in ... by snaky on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:40AM (#18077062)

Technically, nothing.

"Using Visual COBOL in Modern Application Development" https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/visual-cobol/visual...

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Re:Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year in ... by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:04PM (#18077320)

I know a large organization which has a lot of code in an Oracle cluster. No version control, no tests, no development environment.

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