A GNU COBOL status update

Posted Nov 15, 2023 17:38 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: A GNU COBOL status update by Flameeyes
Parent article: A GNU COBOL status update

What's "Wut" about that? When you're talking about computers there's "turning back the clocks", and then there's COBOL.

That language cannot be too many decades in the past, IMHO.

A GNU COBOL status update

Posted Nov 15, 2023 18:05 UTC (Wed) by Flameeyes (guest, #51238) [Link] (3 responses)

Am I to assume this is a type of in-joke that is going to be totally obtuse to anyone under 40? (50? 60?)

I'm in no sarcastic way not understanding what the connection would be between turning back clocks and COBOL.

Unless *everything* to do with computer goes back to COBOL in the mind of the author which could be understandable, but would worry me nonetheless.