Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
by ptx on Monday March 18, 2024 @08:01PM
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I don't think COBOL's dream was to generate enormous amounts of assembly code that users would then have to maintain (in assembly!) and producing differently wrong results every time you ran it.
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Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
by bitwize on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @02:45AM
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It may not have been the dream, but the reality is many COBOL systems have been binary-patched to fix issues so many times that the original source may not be a useful guide to how the thing actually works.