SHAKA. WHEN THE WALLS FELL.
DARMOK AND JALAD.
AT TANAGRA.
TEMBA. HIS ARMS WIDE.
SOKATH HIS EYES UNCOVERED.
AT EL-ADREL.
ON THE OCEAN.
DARMOK AND JALAD. THEY LEFT TOGETHER.
Digital computers have existed since at least 1945 (ENIAC). That's 78 years ago. The pace of change in computing is remarkably fast, and it's unusual to have things that have existed for a long time. Here's a few that have been used for at least 50 years (i.e., they existed in 1973), even if they've changed over time and the original version may not be compatible with the modern world:
@liw #Fortran is still in use, 1957; #Lisp, many current significant uses, 1958; #COBOL, 1959, has its niches, mainly in finance.
Fundamentally most third-generation languages trace their ancestry to the late fifties/early sixties. C is just minor syntactic sugar on top of BCPL (1967).
NEORIS lanza la primera edición de #COBOL Next Gen Bootcamp!
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I don't remember anyone ever saying their software was "thanks to pascal" or "because of visual basic" but the rust guys are an outright cult. It's "java everywhere" all over again: the most important thing about a piece of software is it was written in The Right Language, not what it does. How dare you not program in this language, resistance is useless it shall consume the world and exclude all else forevermore...
@landley
Programming Languages are just tools, and whilst fancy toolkits make getting things done easier, I'm convinced someone with more experience on an older tool will be faster than someone without on a newer tool trying to accomplish the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3wEC6Fj_8
Because tools are only as good as the one wielding them knows how to use them.
That's why stuff is still written in #COBOL, #Ada, #C and the like:
Because being able to have auditable code and reproduceability is important!
In short, I don't think #Solidity adds any value to the world and it's like learning #Roblox instead if #Lua or #SDL in it's unique and weird ways and it doesn't even provide any transferable #skills compared to say #COBOL...
"Code Assistant for IBM Z is designed to assist businesses in refactoring their mainframe apps, ideally while preserving performance and security, according to IBM Research chief scientist Ruchir Puri." -- #KyleWiggers
This idea of using #AI to translate #COBOL code into #Java has one big problem.
The goal is reasonable: ancient COBOL code is effectively a black box, hard to modify or extend and even harder to debug.
But who is validating the Java output? A big part of the problem is how difficult it is to understand the business logic that the COBOL was implementing — but all that analysis work is still required to evaluate the correctness of the Java, plus Java debugging!
Leider wusste ich in den 90ern nicht, dass #basic bei DOS dabei war - ich hatte nur die „Shell“-Programmierung mit GOTO und IF ERRORLEVEL gefunden und bin damit schnell an Grenzen gestoßen
#pl1, #pascal , #Cobol, #fortran waren damals richtig gute Sprachen. Zumindest war der Code im Nachhinein noch lesbar und einigermaßen nachvollziehbar.
languages that are involved in some sort of data analysis and processing (#sql, #clang /c++) are doing very well. Not sure what to make of #Python; are ppl in #AI seeing through the reality is a scripting over extremely performant c/c++ and that there are other lang that can glue as well? #golang & #Julia are ⬆️
📰 IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes
➥ Ars Technica
「 Or you might argue that AI-generated and restructured code might look proper and seem test-ready, but without the people around who know exactly why the code does the things it does, AI-upscaled code could have just as much noise as AI-upscaled video 」
LOL using AI to convert an ancient language #COBOL into a questionable one #Java (having been a professional Java programmer in my lifetime... not my favorite language. Unless you like to chase infinite memory leaks and apps which keep on getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger, and bigger until they use all the memory available on your system.) https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/ibm-taps-ai-to-translate-cobol-code-to-java/