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S12:E2 - What is COBOL and should you learn it (Pete Dashwood)
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In this episode, we're talking about COBOL, with Pete Dashwood, CEO of PRIMA Computing, a company that helps other companies move off of COBOL. Pete talks about what it was like to be a programmer working in COBOL in the 60’s, what the programming language is good at, and the current state of COBOL.
Show Links
- Code Comments (sponsor)
- IRL (sponsor)
- PRIMA Computing
- COBOL
- COBOL, a 60-year-old computer language, is in the COVID-19 spotlight
- High-level programming language
- Assembly language
- Java
- C#
- Python
- IBM Basic Assembly Language and successors
- Mainframe computer
- BASIC
- PL/I
- Von-Neumann Model
- Object-oriented programming
- Batch processing
- Cretaceous COBOL Can Spawn Jurassic Java
- Object-oriented COBOL
- Commodore 64
- Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours
- Straight and Crooked Thinking
Pete Dashwood
Pete Dashwood is the CEO of PRIMA Computing, which helps companies migrate off of COBOL. He started programming computers before what most people call a "computer" was invented. He started with punched cards and paper tape, and much of the history of computing is the history of his career.
357 episodi
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Manage episode 259293866 series 1250448
In this episode, we're talking about COBOL, with Pete Dashwood, CEO of PRIMA Computing, a company that helps other companies move off of COBOL. Pete talks about what it was like to be a programmer working in COBOL in the 60’s, what the programming language is good at, and the current state of COBOL.
Show Links
- Code Comments (sponsor)
- IRL (sponsor)
- PRIMA Computing
- COBOL
- COBOL, a 60-year-old computer language, is in the COVID-19 spotlight
- High-level programming language
- Assembly language
- Java
- C#
- Python
- IBM Basic Assembly Language and successors
- Mainframe computer
- BASIC
- PL/I
- Von-Neumann Model
- Object-oriented programming
- Batch processing
- Cretaceous COBOL Can Spawn Jurassic Java
- Object-oriented COBOL
- Commodore 64
- Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours
- Straight and Crooked Thinking
Pete Dashwood
Pete Dashwood is the CEO of PRIMA Computing, which helps companies migrate off of COBOL. He started programming computers before what most people call a "computer" was invented. He started with punched cards and paper tape, and much of the history of computing is the history of his career.
357 episodi
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