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I once had to deal with a cobol program for something else I was writing. I found a book with the humorous goal of explaining C in cobol terms .... just so I could read the appendix backwards and have a clue what the code was doing.New Jersey desperately needs COBOL Programmers
That’s what the State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, apparently meant today, when he said at a press conference that the State needed volunteers who with “Cobalt” computer skills to help fix 40-year-old-plus unemployment insurance systems that are currently overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19-related job losses.
COBOL, for those who are unfamiliar, is a computer language that is over 60 years old, and was once the staple of software development across industry and government. By the late 1980s, however, it had become sufficiently obsolete that many universities did not even include it in their computer science curricula. In fact, while there are certainly are COBOL systems still in use today, relatively few software developers under the age of 50 have ever seen, never mind written, even one line of COBOL. It is not surprising that even New Jersey’s 62-year old governor, who was an executive at Goldman Sachs for decades, had apparently not heard its name recently enough to remember it correctly.
COBOL’s heyday in the 1970s means that the majority of COBOL experts in America are likely well over 60 years old – making them significantly at risk for death or danger by COVID-19 – and probably a bit rusty at their former craft; many of them have likely not developed in COBOL since long before many of the readers of this article were born.
The danger of relying on COBOL despite its obsolescence is not a new issue.
COVID-19 Response: New Jersey Urgently Needs COBOL Programmers (Yes, You Read That Correctly) - Joseph Steinberg: CyberSecurity Expert Witness, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor
New Jersey desperately needs COBOL Programmers. That’s what the State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, apparently meant today, when he said at a press conference that the State needed volunteers who with “Cobalt” computer skills to help fix 40-year-old-plus unemployment insurance systems that are...josephsteinberg.com
Right, fortran has some pretty good math libraries so it is alive and kicking with physicists and statisticians.
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Can his best bud donnie visit him there. True to his wishes we will not make donnie wear PPE.Coronavirus: Boris Johnson admitted to hospital over virus symptoms
The prime minister is undergoing "routine tests", 10 days after he was diagnosed with coronavirus.
Bummer he never got to fulfil the royal request...Coronavirus: Boris Johnson admitted to hospital over virus symptoms
The prime minister is undergoing "routine tests", 10 days after he was diagnosed with coronavirus.
Diseases tend to travel where herd immunity is weakest. So lets say you have a disease that moved through Houston last week. This week it's in New Orleans, which is East of Houston. The disease will probably move farther east, where less people have had it recently. That's why in the past, diseases kind of tended to spread almost like weather fronts. They spread more chaotically now, across transportation hubs, but they still move where herd immunity is weakest.
Apparently the new White House Press Secretary is Tarzan.
In the US, we typically use USA in this context. Its really the only normal part of that tweet.
no, it's cavemen talk for "us a(re) strong" he might be ignorant at many thing but you gotta admit he knows what his moronic base likes...
It’s now pronounced “Ooosah.”
