While #rtinsights points out that #cobol is the standardized business and finance domain specific language, converting out ($$$) is The Way. The other way, putting talented people on refactoring COBOL to COBOL is way cheaper. And less risky. rtinsights.com/the-problem-wi…

And It's Spring! Pippen's back on the beach after the NY trip.

Mr. #gimple for #GCC #COBOL just got a "street clarinet" so he won't have to take his $$$$ Buffet out in the sun with the Community Band. Makes me wonder if we have such a band here.

Trip Report: Brewster, NY last Wednesday open.substack.com/pub/martyh/p/t…

Just reading “Could Ditching Elections Save Democracy”. Ditching democracy to save democracy? Why not a constitutional amendment to reverse the Judicial Legislation (oxymoron) that lets Corporations use the Privileges of Citizens? bostonreview.net/articles/could…

Burning Man was never about a DeTox, was it? gizmodo.com/starlink-puts-…

I love the characterizations: charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-garbage-…

GCC #COBOL (#gcobol) and #gdb-cobol updates yesterday. Refactoring gab changes for contribution to the project. #cobolworx Also kind of waiting for one of the team to come back from sailing in Maine. 😉

From a blockquote pulled from a n article in The Nation in Matt Taibbi post “The person handing this gift to Weiss is David Ellison, the billionaire nepo baby “ … I suspect The Nation would NEVER call Alex Soros a “nepo baby” 🤣. Matt’s post: racket.news/p/on-bari-weis…

Juan Lucas COBOL Guy On Linked In has a great post with a nice thread the beginning of which is “The real destruction in COBOL is not when systems crash. It is when the people who understand them leave.” linkedin.com/feed/update/sh…

Major Change for Strings: GCC COBOL gets "Wide Characters" and such open.substack.com/pub/cobolworx/…

Got a clean old-guy bill of health on my knee from a great Orthopedic Dr. It's still healing but no action needed beyond further exercise. One problem down.

Sneaking up on GCC 16. #gcobol will have #xml, "National Character" (including UTF-8/16), and GCC messaging format support. #cobol #gcc #cobolworx

A Diana 🦪 siting at David's Restaurant in Fernandina Beach, FL. #fun #finedining #friendshipgames2025 Wish I'd grabbed a better picture but ...

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This is street legal in Kentucky European minds can’t comprehend this.

No #cobolworx and I haven't disappeared. Been buried in early work on improving performance. We've got the function right, now we tighten #gcobol up! #cobol #gcc

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"Brace for the Patch Tsunami!" -- so AI in the hands of "Sufficiently skilled and knowledgeable individuals" ... but how many are sufficiently skilled and knowledgable to recognize when the "exploits" or other supposed defects are real and not slop? #technicaldebt #bugs #exploits

We have a new contributor to GCC COBOL. Paperwork is approved and his first contributions have been merged. They bought a company with a Mainframe and 1000 COBOL programs and want to get rid of it. He's converting them to #gcc #cobol #gcobol and helping us improve the compiler.