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The WTFery that shows up on the google ads on the TheDailyWTF.com is great, but I think that the one I saw today is worthy of posting:
"How can your COBOL systems utilize XML technology easily?"
http://www.xml2cobol.comNeed I say more?
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That. Is. Awesome.
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Does it work with any form of COBOL, or only with object-oriented ADD ONE TO COBOL GIVING COBOL?
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I've always wondered what we could do to COBOL to bring it back up to speed with modern programming languages ..
You C#, Java, etc guys better watch out. COBOL's coming back!
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I see enough ads for COBOL programmers to make the assumption that COBOL never left. :)
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I took at class at a community college that was taught on the web-development side of COBOL. Believe it or not, they taught an introduction class, and then an advanced class. I had to take both of them for my degree. Hah... this was only about 4 years ago.
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There's another minor WTF in that XML/Cobol site: They use <br> tags to force newlines instead of letting the lines wrap naturally and managing margins with CSS. If you make the font bigger, it becomes obvious: Each line is followed by a half-line which breaks usually in the middle of a sentence.
No doubt a Cobol programmer was responsible for that.
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@Edgar Plonk said:
...If you make the font bigger, it becomes obvious: Each line is followed by a half-line which breaks usually in the middle of a sentence.
No doubt a Cobol programmer was responsible for that.
It's those gridded forms they use.
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Why would ANYONE want more than 72 characters on a single line? [;)]