**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker@octodon.social · Apr 30, 2018, 15:28

**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker@octodon.social · Apr 30, 2018, 15:28

Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker@octodon.social

I know COBOL. Maybe I should switch jobs...

https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-way-down/

**Shivvi 😺** @shivvi@octodon.social · Apr 30, 2018, 15:32

**Shivvi 😺** @shivvi@octodon.social · Apr 30, 2018, 15:32

@starbreaker I've spent the best part of the past 20 years trying to forget that I ever knew COBOL. On the evening of 31st December 1999, unable to drink as I was on call, I wished I'd never even heard of it.

T @pertho · Apr 30, 2018, 15:54

T @pertho · Apr 30, 2018, 15:54

@shivvi @starbreaker
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

**Shivvi 😺** @shivvi@octodon.social · Apr 30, 2018, 16:01

**Shivvi 😺** @shivvi@octodon.social · Apr 30, 2018, 16:01

@pertho @starbreaker Should be the name of a secretive data gathering department in a nightmarish dystopia, not a section header in an antedeluvian programming language.

T @pertho · 2018-04-30T16:31:45Z

T @pertho

@shivvi @starbreaker Technological Dystopias are an overused genre. I want Anarcho-Communist Utopias ... á la Ursula K. Leguin

Apr 30, 2018, 16:31 · Tusky · 0 · 0

**Shivvi 😺** @shivvi@octodon.social · Apr 30, 2018, 16:50

**Shivvi 😺** @shivvi@octodon.social · Apr 30, 2018, 16:50

@pertho @starbreaker I'd be happy with that. Ursula rules... or rather, ruled the genre