macOS Cobol Programming on mac

[alphaswift]

I hate to ask this question, but why on earth are they teaching you COBOL in school?

If you want to differentiate yourself and stay in a very good paying job, learn COBOL. Large enterprises will need this skill for a long time to come yet. Word of advice: If you ever get a chance to learn any kind of enterprise tool, like SAP for example, always take it. It may not the sexiest thing out there, but the sports car that having the skill will pay for certainly is.

 

[Senor Cuete]

Ooops, yeah, you are right. I was always confused. Xcode could support C, C++ and swift languages I believe and Cocoa is just a framework, my mistake. Thanks.

You forgot Objective C.

 

[dvhoosier]

Question request. Does anyone make software that would run a website cobol plug in? I use a courthouse website that has a link that I download and run on my windows partition that is COBOL. I would really love to not need parallels and windows to use this app.

 

[jtara]

Question request. Does anyone make software that would run a website cobol plug in? I use a courthouse website that has a link that I download and run on my windows partition that is COBOL. I would really love to not need parallels and windows to use this app.

"POWERED BY COBOL" might not mean what you think it does. It might mean the website itself. It might mean the "backend" that hosts the some particular data. It might mean the app that you download. It might mean that some Cobol program crunches data over-night to refresh the website each morning. No telling WHAT that ambiguous statement means!

But it's irrelevant. If you have to download some .exe that runs on Windows, it's been "compiled". It is irrelevant if the application was written in Cobol, C, or Fortran or Python. It's a Windows executable and it needs Windows to run.

You could use VMWare instead of Parallels. But that wouldn't buy you anything, unless you happen to prefer VMWare (as I do).

Can you clarify just what it is that you download, and how you use it?

Edit: the image you uploaded indicated the use of Microsoft Silverlight. Silverlight has nothing to do with Cobol. It's an application programming framework from Microsoft. It is "deprecated" (meaning Microsoft has stated their intention to withdraw support). It was meant to be used along with a browser plugin or extension for running applications downloaded on-the-fly from the web. And it was an extrodinarily bad idea that should be left to die. (I realize you have no choice...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight

Based on the "POWERED BY COBOL" (who ADMITS that?!) there is some Cobol lurking somewhere. But probably not in whatever it is that you download to do whatever you do with some data.

 

[iShater]

It seems that is it running in the backend server, you don't have to worry about running it. However, you do need to get MS SilverLight plugin.

 

[huperniketes]

If you want to differentiate yourself and stay in a very good paying job, learn COBOL. Large enterprises will need this skill for a long time to come yet.

Also, it'll prepare you for the syntax that is used in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) DSLs.

"Programmer-less programming."

 

[Amadeus71]

This thread is now over 10 years old and the "why on earth would you learn COBOL" questions didn't age very gracefully ;-)

Check out this intro (including a video of how COBOL programmers are a hot commodity these days)

Learn How to Install & Setup COBOL on macOS

Hi there! An in-depth guide on installing and configuring a COBOL-like mainframe using Visual Studio Code on macOS.

www.kevinallenrodriguez.com

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

COBOL is still needed because the biggest moneyed industries in this country won't pay people to rewrite the programs they need to run their businesses.

I ended up getting a programming job for a place that used DYL-280, which I was told was 'very COBOL-esque'. I found out they had SAS, and I learned that language, and eventually wrote all of the programs in that. It was a very powerful programming language. That was decades ago. The 'good old days'.