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Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
Oh hey, I remember doing this years ago. I only did the part that got me a tshirt, but I put it in my resume and got a job writing COBOL. :v:

E: what the hell... how does vscode hook up to the mainframe? Is it just the Linux part of it? (Please don’t tell me that you can use ispf via vscode)

E2: lmao that they effectively replace rational developer for system z with a vscode extension

Phone fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Sep 19, 2020

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Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

duck monster posted:

There is no such thing as a COBOL program with 'very few lines of code'.

Its got to be the most verbose language I've ever countered, like take pascals verbosity and multiply it by ten. Only NATURAL-4G comes close imho

The only thing its really missing is INTERCALs politeness operators (So yeah, you don't have to use PLEASE and THANKYOU commands lol. But I'm sure they considered it!)

You have two tools at your disposal: IFs and PERFORM-VARYINGs.

(there's so many god drat moves)

That said, 88 levels rule and is probably one of my favorite features of COBOL.

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