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mesamunefire@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 7 months ago

The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (COBOL History lesson)

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mesamunefire@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 7 months ago
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    how to obtain this ‘last person that knows cobol’ title with whatever language goes extinct next?

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      My money is on PHP.

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        TCL?

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          Perl

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            I doubt it. It’s still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there’s a lot of text manipulation since it’s really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).

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              Yeah. There’s always at least one mission critical Prel script that no one can read.

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              I made good money on EDI.

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        Like, 70% or more of the web runs on PHP. That’s also not going anywhere anytime soon.

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          Right. At least 70%. I’ve heard it estimated as high as 97%.

          And it’s losing popularity with new development, (and with new developers) while WordPress, Drupal and WikiMedia are everywhere.

          Perfect recipe to be the next Cobol.

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            Oh I see what you’re saying.

            Dang, maybe I should learn PHP…

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              I liked laravel. It’s very rails like.

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      Vba

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        I’m a vba wizard, do not tempt me into waiting until it’s at the state of cobol

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      Probably no longer possible now that we have generative AI, a coder can now be archived alongside the codebase itself.

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        The reason banking still uses Cobol is the same reason they would never trust AI

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        I know devs writing in it making over 200k per year. Ai isn’t that useful unless you can correct for it’s mistakes, which requires some experience with the language.

        Maybe in another 10 years.

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        GenAI coding assistants are only as good as the data they are trained on. Less-used proglangs make up a tiny fraction of the available data, or may even be completely absent. There is a reason coding assistants give convincing results with Python and JS/TS, but underperform even on relatively up-and-coming langs like Rust.

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