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  1. Re:Right tool for the job by Tablizer · · Score: 1 · on Building a Programmer's Rosetta Stone

    building web sites in COBOL *shiver*

    Just use Cobol-Script :-)

  2. Re:Flame on! by plopez · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Going beyond JSP with Ruby and Seaside

    You could say there are signs of nothing but rust on COBOL yet it's still very heavily used in financial applications (back end).

    Wrong! It's no just for the 'backend' these days! And you thought the old farts weren't 'with it'.

    http://www.cobolscript.com/

  3. Re:The shortcomings of SQL by Tablizer · · Score: 1 · on An Alternative to SQL?

    COBOL was(is) also english-like. People liked it. Then they liked it less. But enough had been written in COBOL that the damn thing just won't die...

    Indeed. Check out Active COBOL Pages, AKA "COBOL Script".

  4. Wow by perlyking · · Score: 0, Funny · on Cobol Isn't Dead

    Its funny that they complain about perl for being "obfuscated" yet think code like this is fine.

  5. Re:p fixation? by AJWM · · Score: 1 · on Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language

    Malbolge? That sounds more like a disease... ;-)

    Mercury is a planet, Miranda is a moon -- but I guess that's okay, Algol is a star.

    Doesn't anyone have a COBOL-script?

    Actually, it seems, yes. (Scary, isn't it?)

  6. All three are subjugate to.... by TheLocustNMI · · Score: 2 · on PHP, Perl, Java Servlets - What's Right For You?
    COBOLScript!

    And who says you can't teach old dogs (or mainframe jockeys) new tricks?

  7. Re:Won't reach critical mass by Silver+A · · Score: 2 · on Curl Instead of Java or JavaScript?
    We should stick with the languages we already know and know well.

    CobolScript

  8. Been done by coreman · · Score: 1 · on Lego + Linux HOWTO

    Tom Selleck in Runaway. Besides, spiders are cooler than dogs 8^)

    Extra Credit: Write the person tracking software for the missle/bullets in CobolScript