The Beauty of COBOL (2018)

Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by pgtan on Friday October 18, 2019 @06:13AM (#21290066)

For me, COBOL is so over-presented in the media among the old (mainframe) lagnuages, but I recently was surprised to see a production mainframe LPAR offering an APL2 interface,and it seems the language is still maintained on zOS[1]. But I never heard of business application written in APL.

1 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apl2-whats-new

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Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by nickpeterson on Friday October 18, 2019 @06:27AM (#21290128)

APL was strongly supported by IBM early on, and was used for verification of early IBM systems. When you look at APL in context, it was extremely ahead of its time.

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Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by scottlocklin on Friday October 18, 2019 @11:24AM (#21292141)

I went to Burning Man with Allen Rose's cousin (of "Gilman and Rose" fame), and got to hear two fisted tales of him writing CRM applications in an afternoon that were still in production 20, 30 years later. It's a shame, really; it really is the most productive language I've ever used.

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Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by Pamar on Friday October 18, 2019 @09:25AM (#21291149)

Do a string search for "APL" in this webpage then: https://www.simcorp.com/en/career/product-development

(A friend of mine worked for www.apl.it which was later bought by simcorp.com - the original company worked on actuarial models for insurances and funds).

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Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by dang on Saturday October 19, 2019 @11:46AM (#21299069)

APL is alive and somewhat well on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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