andrewducker (
andrewducker) wrote2010-01-07 04:05 pm
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The Y2010 bug
Next time someone says that the Y2K bug was a load of rubbish, point them at this example of what happens when people don't test their software/hardware before rolling over a minor date change.
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For toolchains, it can be run as one-line commands rather nicely.
Your setup is just weird! ;)
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And I know that Perl is fast - but, largely due to its simplicity, COBOL is ridiculously fast when processing text. It's designed to run very close to the metal - and remap bits of memory to extract different bits of text out of structured flat files.
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I'll admit, this is wholly outside my experience. But: no command line? Gah!?! Do you edit the inodes with magnets too? ;)
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Or you write a job and then submit it to be processed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language
will copy OLDFILE to NEWFILE And yes, it is defining how much space to allocate there. In cylinders.
I am rather glad I don't do work in COBOL any more. :->
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I'd ask why the hell are people still using this old crap, but... *sigh*
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You'll be glad to hear that the modern bits of the system are being written in DB2, Java and C# :->