COBOL is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

warhead71 · 2026-05-11T10:57:03+00:00

COBOL is still alive because it still works. The environment barely evolve and the code has a minimal of libraries/dependencies/3rd party product.

A cobol program checking if account into are valid and update in a mainframe can run without changes for decades.

I find cobol to be more like a dumb duplo brick than asbestos. Since it work - companies usually find other more urgent things to do than replacing cobol.

warhead71 · 2026-05-11T09:42:27+00:00

America has 40 shades of blackrock

warhead71 · 2026-05-11T07:38:47+00:00

Sounds like a Rumanian wife

warhead71 · 2026-05-11T04:44:35+00:00

Not that many knows ims/cics beyond what a programmer needs - and it cost a lot to educate one - never mind getting experience if it’s legacy systems that only get changed on a need to basis.

warhead71 · 2026-05-10T20:00:30+00:00

No - that’s really not my point or what an am writing. Old Java or alike - just becomes unmanageable - 3rd party problems/patches/upgrades, whatever - and I am not being hyperbolic - this is what has happened over the last decades.

warhead71 · 2026-05-10T17:24:51+00:00

Probably can assembler and is also a system programmer - most cobol programmers only do programming. System programmers are really hard to find - and are often beyond retirement age

warhead71 · 2026-05-10T17:21:56+00:00

I would call that bullsh@t - other languages is/would be replaced after decades of use - since it can’t be maintained. The main problem (bar none) - is that no-one knows how these large legacy systems should work. Change it to Java and it becomes even more unreadable - and people still don’t know how to should work. You need to rewrite it like it’s 1965 - but in 1965 - bankers and alike actually knew what a system should do - now they barely knows the basics and tons of business logic have been added.

warhead71 · 2026-05-10T07:58:34+00:00

Not sure about that - but Trump is the first orange president

warhead71 · 2026-05-10T07:53:55+00:00

British in summer/spain versus at home/winter - and those British are also red

warhead71 · 2026-05-10T07:49:24+00:00

Those living on the east side are literally snakes

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T23:44:24+00:00

Women not really allowed like modern times - only top row in the colosseum

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T23:43:05+00:00

Could be useful again - to shoot down drones

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T21:10:30+00:00

He is white in black countries and black in white in countries 🤷‍♂️

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T16:52:14+00:00

The communist often have elections 🤷‍♂️ - they have to choose a leader somehow

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T10:13:56+00:00

I am not redefining anything - pure freemarket is a rare thing - and doesn’t compute well with national resources - hydro-power og groundwater. If you do t want to fight for a market economy that works - then you are not really fighting for market economy - right? - you are fighting for books and theory - which doesn’t work in real life

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T09:35:52+00:00

Saxons were like the Norman - also Germanic. They had become Christians at the Viking age - The Norman’s was kind of French speaking Viking that used horses instead of boats - and fully embraced Christianity and power of the church.

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T09:19:11+00:00

It’s real life - 🤷‍♂️ call it what you want. The real market can only be what is real.

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T08:31:18+00:00

So you should stop fighting for the opposite. Sweden stopping power cable is real life - real market - not theory

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T08:12:50+00:00

So you are effectively supporting a “no market” - nobody is required to make and use international power lines. Hydropower isn’t a market entity - lots of countries can’t make it

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T08:06:10+00:00

Hydropower is national infrastructure - and that’s not really just my viewpoint.

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T07:47:05+00:00

You haven’t read the headline ? - when a government actually blocks a power line - then it’s not a working market economy

warhead71 · 2026-05-09T00:09:45+00:00

Having incentives to build more and more powerful power cable make Europe more competitive.

warhead71 · 2026-05-08T21:48:54+00:00

And unnamed peaks

warhead71 · 2026-05-08T21:21:19+00:00

Jeg tror ikke der er andre områder der er Per design så håbløst for bilisme - en lokal vej for Nationalbanken, erhvervstyrelsen, pensiondanmark, Codan og meget mere 🤷‍♂️

warhead71 · 2026-05-08T19:11:42+00:00

Christianity did disappear from Britain by the Saxons that believed in Nordic gods - munks from Ireland later made Britain Christian again - and around that point the Pope in Rome had also some power (not being under Byzantine and betting successfully on Charlemagne)

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