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GnuCOBOL seems to be the de-facto standard COBOL implementation on Unix-like platforms these days, so (at least) it is a notable software. They seem to have no actual blog, so the changelog is the best news link I could come up with...
I don't think this is the de-facto standard, probably moreso Microfocus, or perhaps NetCobol.
Curious to see a GNU project rely on SourceForge.
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/perceptronCobol
It was a challenge I was able to do in about 4 hours of code I didn't find that much harder to program in a Cobol (given that you use the right IDE, I wrote it in Gedit and the identation was a pain at first)
And they say only Rust makes it to the front page of HN. More seriously is this release particularly notable in the COBOL world? I know very little about the language and I find it odd to find the Changelog of a minor release at the top of the frontpage.
GnuCOBOL seems to be the de-facto standard COBOL implementation on Unix-like platforms these days, so (at least) it is a notable software. They seem to have no actual blog, so the changelog is the best news link I could come up with...
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I don't think this is the de-facto standard, probably moreso Microfocus, or perhaps NetCobol.
Microfocus dominates on Windows, and rightfully so. Integrating .NET with COBOL was a very good idea for both them and their clients.
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I doubt that very many Swedes in IT works for less than 30.000SEK, so I would assume USD.
My guess would be EUR. In most of the Europe people don't mentally convert to USD but to EUR.
Technically most of Europe don't need convert to EUR, they already use Euros so they're also more likely to need to convert to USD.
Its awful that most people here are criticizing COBOL, yet they don't even know it, but they just "heard bad things about it". In my country and in Sweden it is quite easy to get good and stable job in banking/insurance/consulting business with Cobol on Z/OS. Salary is around 10-30k PER MONTH. Around 3x more then in let's say Java.
I’ve always heard COBOL devs referred to as either highly paid consultants keeping critical applications alive for corporations or wage slaves maintaining a painful app for below average pay.