When you think of languages you might read about on Hackaday, COBOL probably isn’t one of them. The language is often considered mostly for business applications and legacy ones, at that. The…
COBOL has always been a high performance language within it’s typical user cases. So I’m not too surprised that it also performs well on other levels as well. But writing a framework to handle the encoding and decoding of bits and packets in that language sounds like a special kind of masochism.
COBOL has always been a high performance language within it’s typical user cases. So I’m not too surprised that it also performs well on other levels as well. But writing a framework to handle the encoding and decoding of bits and packets in that language sounds like a special kind of masochism.