$m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2%Sa 2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]\EszlXx++p|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*',$_)while read(STDIN,$m,($w=2*$… (View Post)

Good code is reusable, modular and maintainable. 99% of code doesn't need bleeding edge optimisation in performance, memory usage or the rest. (View Post)

Having just killed some COBOL systems… You can get tools to translate COBOL. Right now. No AI required. The real work is in replacing systems that are 50 years old. At that point you are building and… (View Post)

There are, essentially, no COBOL devs left. IBM are not selling COBOL programmed solutions. (View Post)

Just got rid of COBOL in the bank I work at. Last systems turned off. COBOL is an extremely rigidly defined language. Plenty of people have made effective translators from it to other languages over … (View Post)