[conspire] Java isn't even Cobol 2.0

[Elise Scher]

I used to program in COBOL for a living for 16 plus years.
And now I have COVID according to my take home antigen test. No connection
to COBOL. Mild symptoms. I am isolating.

Elise

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 12:05 PM Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net>
wrote:

> I've had a joke I've told for years, and…I was in error.
>
> "Java is COBOL 2.0."
>
> The catch is, Java hasn't replaced Cobol in a lot of industries *because
> it can't*.
>
> > One of the fun side effects of my summer learning COBOL is that I’m
> beginning to understand that it’s not that Java can’t do math correctly,
> it’s how Java does math correctly. And when you understand how Java does
> math and how COBOL does the same math, you begin to understand why it’s so
> difficult for many industries to move away from their legacy.
>
>
> https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-holding-you-hostage-with-math-5498c0eb428b
>
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