Comment on If it ain't broke
psud@aussie.zone 2 months agoI work with COBOL programmers who came to Australia as adult refugees from an American war in South East Asia
Comment on If it ain't broke
psud@aussie.zone 2 months agoI work with COBOL programmers who came to Australia as adult refugees from an American war in South East Asia
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Excuse my ignorance but is COBOL still spoken there? Sometimes language islands survive you wouldn’t expect
psud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I met a young man intent on learning, not as a first language, but he had hopes of becoming fluent
My past job was as a translator between business (in their “requirements” and “feature” languages) to COBOL programmers in something like careful unambiguous English (of which most have a reasonable understanding)