looking at the #cobol first person shooter and it's surprisingly readable https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob/blob/main/fps.cob
#cobol
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A friend of the #gcobol (#gcc #cobol) project sent us an anthill of code (62Kloc of COBOL and 6Kloc of copybooks) that doesn't compile. Jim's got fixes for some of the problems and we're cataloging the rest. The team's been waiting for some "real code" so this is very exciting!
Happy to chat about looking at yours!
A raycasting first-person shooter written in #COBOL
https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob
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Using COBOL As A Shader Language
Yep, what's in the title apparently can be done.
COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language, and is an extremely verbose language designed purposely to be understandable to managers. Everything in COBOL reads like it does, which makes it hard to work with. A fair portion of the financial world still runs on COBOL, in some ca
https://setsideb.com/using-cobol-as-a-shader-language/
#niche #cobol #niche #ShaderLanguage #StupidComputerTricks #Vulkan
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