Day: February 12, 2021💾

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No, COBOL Is Not a Dead Language

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No, COBOL Is Not a Dead Language

COBOL, an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language, is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. First released in 1959, it's designed to be easy to?read by a human, which Seay says makes the language easy for students to grasp.

"COBOL?is not a very difficult language to learn," he said. "It's very linear; it's very self-describing. The verbosity that people criticize it for, I think, is one of its strengths. It tells you what it does."
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My sneaking suspicion that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is advertising to QAnon supporters

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My sneaking suspicion that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is advertising to QAnon supporters …

I’ve been noticing that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is increasingly advertising on Facebook feeds and prepper and homesteading websites. I couldn’t help but think they are going for the QAnon crowd, trying to raise donations from conspiratorial minded individuals, who think the government prostituting children. Maybe it’s a good thing — redirecting funds that might otherwise be used for buying merchandise supporting the bizarre conspiracy theory, but it sure seems exploitative of individuals that are suffering from delusional, conspiratorial thinking about their government.