Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it
by FpUser on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @08:42PM
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No need to be so dramatic. Shitheads will make software fail in any language. Memory "safety" will not help you correctly and in timely manner calculate position of flight controls for example.
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Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it
by User23 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:45PM
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One can write reliable, and I mean airtight good enough for medical devices and nuclear deterrence, in basically any even vaguely modern language (think Algol-60 or later). It’s simply a matter of disciplined design and running on hardware that’s sufficiently predictable.