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COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it

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425 points·by hardburn·há 2 anos·437 comments

Moore's Law is dead, but not for the reasons everyone says

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2 points·by hardburn·há 2 anos·0 comments

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hardburn
·há 2 anos·discuss
Down in the "practical use" section, one use case is bypassing copy protection on consoles.
hardburn
·há 2 anos·discuss
Most aerospace stuff is. The thing is, they have reams of very specific rules about how it's coded, how to verify that code, and how to verify the compiler of that code, and how to verify the code output from that compiler. It's not an easy process to replace, but its proven reliable just by all the commercial planes flying every day without falling out of the sky.

In theory, something like Rust could do the job instead, but they'd still have to verify the entire chain. Rust is for the rest of us to get something half as reliable as that while also being able to write more than two lines of code per day.
hardburn
·há 2 anos·discuss
Thank you!
hardburn
·há 2 anos·discuss
I actually met a programmer who worked on military jets. According to her, Ada is only used anymore for the older jets that were already programmed in it, and she worked in C++.
hardburn
·há 2 anos·discuss
No