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AnkhMorporkian on Oct 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: TXR: A Programming Language for Convenient Data Mu...

It's a very ugly language, I don't think anyone is going to disagree there.

That being said, it has some intriguing features that I'm not going to dismiss. I work with COBOL on a daily basis, so I'm not going to say no to a new language just because it's ugly. There seems to be a lot of utility here.

hawkw on Oct 4, 2014 [–]

Purely out of curiosity: what is it that you do that forces you to work with COBOL on a daily basis?

AnkhMorporkian on Oct 5, 2014 | | [–]

I mostly do legacy code conversion for the banking sector. It's all contract work, so it varies, but 95% of the time that's my deal.

e_modad on Oct 5, 2014 | | [–]

Likewise! I'm curious too. Why is COBOL your main language? Bank legacy servers?

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