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The year is 2077. The soft hum of futuristic machinery is drowned out by the sudden ominous silence that blankets the Earth. W...
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Thanks a lot, Nevo, for providing me with this opportunity to create the Alien Hunter Saga.
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This is a playbook for governments around the world to take notice and start teaching COBOL in all schools, in hopes of building an army of developers for future conflicts.
Thank you XAE-12 for your contributions to fighting the alien forces, and mastering COBOL. I hope to see a tutorial in the next series!
Yes, let's join the resistance and save the world!!
The single thing that makes COBOL code look ancient is writing it in all uppercase.
Using lowercases makes it more similar to modern code.
Uppercases were a must with line printers (like IBM 1403) that had a 48-characters repertoire, that is, no lowercase types.
Ha ha yeah, but we've got SQL as well.
SQL looks great using lowercase too.
Actually, I've found that in SQL the best for me was to uppercase only the keywords. In SQL indenting is crucial to understand lengthy procedures.
In my work with usability I learned that for us humans (IT guys included) reading an all-caps text is painfull, compared with the usual mixed case seen around.
This is because we recognize the words by looking at their upper edge.
When this edge is as straight as uppercase text's, then we need to look twice in order to confirm our first glance outcome.
Thus, we read slower and with more effort.
BWT, very good article!
Thanks for your good works @juanlanus. And yes.
this makes reading capital letters a bit tedious. By we gotta do what we gotta do.
We need useCOBOL hook in React immediately
Nice article, @srbhr !
Yes, why stop at React, we've got huge mainframes to write and fix. NextJS (COBOL version).
Thank you COBOL!
Ha ha yeah! COBOL for the win!
lol, really liked it!
Thank you!!
thanks for sharing details for COBOL!
When will Firecamp support COBOL??
LOL, is this a meme or what?
But I like it! π
It is for fun and laughs. But COBOL is king.