Cobol on cogs

#1

Post by catalinist » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 9:27 AM UTC

Cobol on cogs
coboloncogs.org

Re: Cobol on cogs

#2

Post by DrJokepu » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 1:54 PM UTC

That site was a lot better before they have put up the adsense ads. Now it kind of ruins the whole experience.

Re: Cobol on cogs

#3

Post by crazydiamond » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 2:16 PM UTC

Its looking great.

^^ I have adblock so my experience is still unparalleled. Now to write some php bindings for it.

Re: Cobol on cogs

#4

Post by s-phi-nl » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 2:18 PM UTC

Maybe I'm just too young, but I don't get the joke (other than that writing a web framework in COBOL is somewhat funny). Anyone care to explain?

Re: Cobol on cogs

#5

Post by DrJokepu » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 2:57 PM UTC

s-phi-nl wrote: post #4

Maybe I'm just too young, but I don't get the joke (other than that writing a web framework in COBOL is somewhat funny). Anyone care to explain?

It's a parody of Ruby on Rails and the Ruby on Rails website: http://rubyonrails.org/

Re: Cobol on cogs

#6

Post by ra » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 2:57 PM UTC

That web site has been around since java was the new kool aid

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#7

Post by j_baker » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 2:58 PM UTC

Is the date overflow thing some kind of y2k reference?

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#8

Post by pohl » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 3:32 PM UTC

ra wrote: post #6

That web site has been around since java was the new kool aid

That would mean the title is not poking fun at RoR.

Re: Cobol on cogs

#9

Post by ryoshu » Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 4:05 PM UTC

I'm waiting for the alpha release of APL on carts.