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Show HN: A Simple COBOL Game, TicTacTOBOL
- BasiliusCarver 6y agoI wanted to learn a little bit of COBOL so I could have a better understanding of the code underpinning a large amount of the money that flows through our banks. I found it quite enjoyable and it's less scary than I anticipated given the reaction I've seen from a lot of developers. If anyone has pointers for how I could improve this feel free to hit me with a PR.
- agustif 6y agoWould you mind sharing any resources you found helpful along the way? Might wanna pick it up on the near future
- BasiliusCarver 6y agoI started by copying a COBOL helloworld program and working through the concepts on https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol It's very lightweight but that's what I was after. What I wish I had done from the start was compile with all warnings (-Wall) because it would have caught a few things like me assigning constants to variables (pictures in COBOL) that were not the right size so they were silently truncated at runtime
- jscnz 6y agodope
- quickthrower2 6y agoThat COBOL reminds me of a Terraform configuration file. Maybe we've gone full circle?
- makaze 6y agoVery nice, its amazing how many banks still utilize this aging language.
- atum47 6y agoThis is great. Remember me of my early days on Java when I made a Battleship game. I was recently curious about cobol, after reading that it is in high demand these days. I'll try something myself later. Good job.
- BasiliusCarver 6y agoThanks, I might give "Connect FORTRAN" a go next