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Nathan W🌻 :
OBS is awesome at screen recording / audio recording. It's open source, small, lean, and free. For editing videos look at DaVinci Resolve, also free and amazing.
2025-09-14 04:18:53
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Ian 🇬🇧 :
I bought MicroFocus COBOL once upon a time. Mid nineties I think. Very nearly learnt it in order to get a job. Luckily got into web dev though
2025-09-14 09:06:34
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DJ Flex :
Very interesting. Thank you
2025-09-14 11:25:22
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pigeonisms :
i love that "user drops the punch cards" is a design consideration 😁
2025-09-14 12:38:18
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Tim :
DEC/HP/HPE/VSI OpenVMS COBOL which I have used since 95 with some code from the 80s almost doesn't care although a compiler switch will go back to punch card style. * goes in column 1 and \A or is it /A for conditional compilation
2025-09-14 09:50:05
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Raymond Gabriel :
I think I'll do my vibe coding in COBOL
2025-09-13 21:57:21
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wmute :
Industry-standard, IBM Punch Cards were 80-columns wide, so columns 73-80 are the mythical bonus area that you are talking about.
2025-09-14 08:15:39
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Whgrrbl :
I use Cobol at work, but were starting to transition off of it and I know I'll miss it when it's gone
2025-09-14 01:40:19
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StormyParis :
more seriously, this is interesting and fun, thank you ❤
2025-09-14 09:41:27
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Violet :
I've never seen anything COBOL before I saw your video the other day, so thank you for going back to basics!
2025-09-14 01:01:20
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D :
as a software dev with... erm... modern language benefits, it's incredible to put into perspective how far we've come over around 70 years
2025-09-14 00:56:49
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Stuart Rowe675 :
RE: sequence numbers - a CS prof told me back in punch card days a good diagonal marker line down the stack helped if you played punch-card pickup... p.s. great series so far!
2025-09-14 02:36:03
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Tardis Pilot :
OBS isn’t necessarily the easiest, but it is free and open source, and it could do all the screen grabbing and such.
2025-09-13 21:49:25
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Aligubbs 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️🌈 :
Most of my COBOL bugs were because I'd strayed into column 73...
2025-09-13 22:00:54
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BespokeBear :
Ooh will we get to see an infamous yellow card
2025-09-14 09:45:32
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TheGodMoses :
How did I get here? 😭 oh well I'm staying
2025-09-14 00:03:51
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Keab42 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 :
I stumbled across Tim Traveller with a beard telling me about old programming languages. of course I'm staying.
2025-09-13 22:42:02
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Somerled Mackay :
You really should cover Forth. It’s a fascinating idea
2025-09-14 09:12:18
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ℜob :
All I remember about COBOL is Identification Division.
2025-09-14 01:21:09
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vghn_uk :
Oh heck, you’re still at it. Right, I’ll have to go a find my COBOL coursework now … (right next to dBase IV folder)
2025-09-13 21:44:45
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Element_Mo :
I’m not a COBOL programmer but I do a lot of RPG programming and even though I try to be modern and program in “modern” environments, my bread and butter has been being able to read and code on programs that are very old.
2025-09-14 00:56:41
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Lola Joon :
we used to put our userid in the identification area . so we could hunt down who wrote it and make fun of them (or ask them questions)
2025-09-14 12:21:28
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Fortran :
I can’t wait for the APL series. Let’s go (2=+⌿0=(⍳X)∘.|⍳X)/⍳X
2025-09-13 23:02:34
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shinosarna :
"for backwards compatibility" considering backwards compatibility is primary reason people use COBOL today that sounds important.
2025-09-14 04:01:47
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alltorx :
Was at a friend’s stag a few years back. Was all a bit too mad for me, but his dad was there, who I found out was a cobol programmer back in the day. Spent most of the time talking to him about it. Wish I didn’t drink as much so I could remember more of what he said, haha.
2025-09-14 04:41:15
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