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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.
Visual Basic (and I'm talking about the original Visual Basic, not the it's-just-C#-with-a-wordy-syntax VB.NET) is actually a better programming language than JavaScript. Visual Basic's semantics are better. Visual Basic's syntax is better in some cases. Visual Basic is more consistent. Visual Basic is more predictable. Visual Basic has a saner type system. Visual Basic code is more maintainable. The Visual Basic community isn't full of hipsters.