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BasiliusCarver
I wanted to learn a little bit of COBOL so I could have a better understanding of the code underpinning a large amount of the money that flows through our banks. I found it quite enjoyable and it's less scary than I anticipated given the reaction I've seen from a lot of developers. If anyone has pointers for how I could improve this feel free to hit me with a PR.
agustif
Would you mind sharing any resources you found helpful along the way? Might wanna pick it up on the near future
BasiliusCarver
I started by copying a COBOL helloworld program and working through the concepts on https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol It's very lightweight but that's what I was after. What I wish I had done from the start was compile with all warnings (-Wall) because it would have caught a few things like me assigning constants to variables (pictures in COBOL) that were not the right size so they were silently truncated at runtime
quickthrower2
That COBOL reminds me of a Terraform configuration file. Maybe we've gone full circle?
makaze
Very nice, its amazing how many banks still utilize this aging language.
atum47
This is great. Remember me of my early days on Java when I made a Battleship game. I was recently curious about cobol, after reading that it is in high demand these days. I'll try something myself later.

Good job.