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S12:E2 - What is COBOL and should you learn it (Pete Dashwood)
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Apr 20, 2020
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Podcast episode
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In this episode, we're talking about COBOL, with Pete Dashwood, CEO of PRIMA Computing, a company that helps other companies move off of COBOL. Pete talks about what it was like to be a programmer working in COBOL in the 60’s, what the programming language is good at, and the current state of COBOL.
Show Links Digital Ocean (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Heroku (sponsor) TwilioQuest (sponsor) COBOL COBOL, a 60-year-old computer language, is in the COVID-19 spotlight PRIMA Computing High-level programming language Assembly language Java C# Python IBM Basic Assembly Language and successors Mainframe computer BASIC PL/I Von-Neumann Model Object-oriented programming Batch processing Cretaceous COBOL Can Spawn Jurassic Java Object-oriented COBOL Commodore 64 Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours Straight and Crooked Thinking
Show Links Digital Ocean (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Heroku (sponsor) TwilioQuest (sponsor) COBOL COBOL, a 60-year-old computer language, is in the COVID-19 spotlight PRIMA Computing High-level programming language Assembly language Java C# Python IBM Basic Assembly Language and successors Mainframe computer BASIC PL/I Von-Neumann Model Object-oriented programming Batch processing Cretaceous COBOL Can Spawn Jurassic Java Object-oriented COBOL Commodore 64 Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours Straight and Crooked Thinking
Released:
Apr 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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