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#HeirloomComputing

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Marty Heyman<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@riotnrrd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>riotnrrd</span></a></span> ... We could have a discussion about your opinion of COBOL. Your second point is on target. Developers responsibly write and test COBOL to Java translators and carefully make sure the results are correct (<a href="https://symas.social/tags/heirloomcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heirloomcomputing</span></a> among others). AI is a different matter altogether. GnuCOBOL simply compiles it to C and uses gcc to produce native programs. Our COBOL for GCC (gcobol) will be a GCC - native compiler. Recompilation is often all that is needed.</p><p><a href="https://symas.social/tags/cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobol</span></a> <a href="https://symas.social/tags/gcobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gcobol</span></a> <a href="https://symas.social/tags/gnucobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnucobol</span></a></p>
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛<blockquote>&gt; If I'd be building software to use for the next 100 years I'd be using something like CL or SML that has "failed" to change this side of the century.</blockquote><p><br>Re: <a href="https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-3964-4f9f-b973-91a525396900" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-3…</a> (by myself)</p><p>Someone wrote a blog post on this, the heirloom program or the 100-year program or something and drew the SML conclusion, but I can't find it now.</p><p>It was written over a year ago. It wasn't the CollapseOS guy, nor was it anyone at Merveilles Town.</p><p><a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=PostCollapseComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostCollapseComputing</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=HeirloomComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeirloomComputing</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=SmallComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallComputing</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=PermaComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PermaComputing</span></a></p>
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