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A ll it took for COBOL to make the mainstream
headlines was a pandemic. When COVID-19
began resulting in mass layoffs, many
unemployed people in New Jersey found that filing
an online claim was nearly impossible.
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A ll it took for COBOL to make the mainstream
headlines was a pandemic. When COVID-19
began resulting in mass layoffs, many
unemployed people in New Jersey found that filing
an online claim was nearly impossible.
A ll it took for COBOL to make the mainstream
headlines was a pandemic. When COVID-19
began resulting in mass layoffs, many
unemployed people in New Jersey found that filing
an online claim was nearly impossible.
Wim Ebbinkhuijsen (born 24 December 1939, Amsterdam) is a retired Dutch computer scientist who is considered to be one of the "fathers of Cobol". He presented his story at the April #DevDay events in Stockholm and Copenhagen. Here are his slides.
in 1979 he initiated the International ISO COBOL Working Group. From 1967 he was a member, and from 1978 until 2003 he was the chairman of the Dutch COBOL Committee ("Nederlandse COBOL Commissie"). From 1998 until 2001 he was also a member of the NCITS/ANSI COBOL committee X3J4. As such, he has designed and rewritten dozens parts of the current COBOL standard. He has been active for many years with Exin (EXamenINstituut, "Dutch examination Institute"), where he acted as member and later as chairman of the examining-board T2-Cobol. He has written six course-books about COBOL. He also wrote the first International Standard for the programming language BASIC.
At October 22, 2004 he left the Cobol world after 42 years of commitment, with a valedictory symposium in the auditorium of the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. For his enormous contribution to COBOL he received an IEEE award, as well as the Dutch royal distinction, Knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau (Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau).
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Based on a career in interaction design of over 30 years, this talk describes how the discipline of user experience design has developed over that time. It also explores some of the potential pathways that practitioners might follow in the next phase beyond “Peak Web” UX design. This will be presented through the lens of creative leadership in a large-scale interdisciplinary team at the world’s biggest public service media organisation.
Tech Channel ebook on unlocking COBOL Business Value - published in March 2021.
A ll it took for COBOL to make the mainstream
headlines was a pandemic. When COVID-19
began resulting in mass layoffs, many
unemployed people in New Jersey found that filing
an online claim was nearly impossible.
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2. COBOLwas designed
with business in mind
(that’s what the B is)
It is great for data, for
arithmetic, for large scale
business processing.
It works everywhere, and
you can learn it easily.
2
3. The original design of
COBOL was the result
of combined effort of
science, commerce
and government.
4. It has always had
its detractors…
4
“It is rather unlikely
that Cobol [sic] will be
around by the end of
the decade”.
– Anonymous, June 1960
5. COBOL has evolved and
adapted over time.
This is driven by users,
vendors and an
independent standards
body.
5
6. COBOL systems quietly
run some of the
world’s largest and
most successful
organizations.
COBOL provides
enduring value,
without the fanfare.