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Node.js Now Runs COBOL and FORTRAN (arstechnica.com)
Last summer a developer created a plugin which made it possible to run snippets of COBOL code embedded in JavaScript using the Node.js interpreter. Now Slashdot reader techfilz writes: Romanian developer Bizau Ionica has engineered a software bridge called node.cobol which can execute Node.js scripts from within COBOL programs.
The link shows COBOL code executing a Node.js script that launches a Web server and creates ASCII art from a JPEG image -- in this case, Admiral Grace Hopper, who helped create COBOL in 1959. And Ars Technica points out the same developer has also built a Node.js bridge for FORTRAN.
The link shows COBOL code executing a Node.js script that launches a Web server and creates ASCII art from a JPEG image -- in this case, Admiral Grace Hopper, who helped create COBOL in 1959. And Ars Technica points out the same developer has also built a Node.js bridge for FORTRAN.
He needs to be stopped before he gets round to Visual Basic.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Until it runs ADA it will be a toy language for hipsters.
...they never stopped to think if they should.
Please, stop creating excuses to keep all that old FORTRAN and COBOL code around. Think of the children!
Bearded Dragon
I won't be happy until I can run COBOL in my browser under WINE through a VM running on a aliased instance of Win XP under AmigaOS.
Oh, and I want a high frame rate too.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
About time my malware runs on payroll mainframes!
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