Re:A Historical Perspective on COBOL (2020)
by hyperman1 on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:56AM
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Lets chalk it up to different corporate cultures then. Copybooks around here have so much redefines that the smallest mistake causes data corruption. Also, theres not a week going by without someone running out of numbers.
But my experiences were just the opposite. If you need to write accounting software, COBOL is a pretty painless way to do it. Add in something like automatic copybooks from DDL in file metadata (like the OS/400 supported) and it was great never having to worry about people forgetting to update record layouts.
the result was you could knock out your typical accounting stuff fairly quickly..