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Fun With Visual COBOL-> 0

Submitted by AlexTurner on Saturday May 22 2010, @08:02AM

AlexTurner writes "COBOL has had a lot of bad press over the years but modern versions are nothing like the 'rots the mind' stuff of old. Good tooling and modern language features — included compilation to .net and up to the minute IDE support — make all the difference. Who knows — COBOL programmers might even get to have some fun!"
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The Knife Is Out For Ruby-> 1

Submitted by AlexTurner on Saturday May 22 2010, @05:49AM

AlexTurner writes "Dynamic languages are coming to the end of their honeymoon period. This is bad for Python and maybe PHP, but it is nothing short of a disaster for Ruby. The reasons are described here and then passionately debate. Do you have a view on this subject?"
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Micro Focus Massive COBOL Help Resource Made Free!-> 0

Submitted by AlexTurner on Friday April 30 2010, @04:55AM

AlexTurner writes "Over the years Micro Focus as accumulated a massive database of answers to customer questions, developer written articles and other really useful documentation on how to and when to use Micro Focus tools.

Now it is for free!"
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Comment: Re:Apache vs IIS (Score 1) 703

by AlexTurner on Thursday April 26 2007, @04:36AM (#18881803) Attached to: Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins

I am with you there! I am a system architect. That means that if a live system goes down - I get the kicking of a life time. I get feedback from developers saying 'but it would be much easier and faster to do this with xyz product (exchange, iis, etc). My response is that I really don't mind if it takes a days extra to do it with a product which will not fall over. On the knowing everything. Apache comes from a UNIX background and that is a different mind set. Once you start to get the mind set more - the chances are that it will all start to make more sense to you. When I went over to using Windows systems I could not figure out what was going on - it works both ways to a certain extent - but I think the Windows learning curve is easier to climb.