Thoughts on the Future of Software Development

Post by pollies » Sun, Mar 24, 2024, 8:58 AM UTC

Post by tra3 » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 4:58 AM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #349

ptx wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think COBOL's dream was to generate enormous amounts of assembly code that users would then have to maintain (in assembly!) and producing differently wrong results every time you ran it.

It may not have been the dream, but the reality is many COBOL systems have been binary-patched to fix issues so many times that the original source may not be a useful guide to how the thing actually works.