[mdlug] I asked Grok 3 to create a COBOL program

[Steve Litt]

Gib said on Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:32:27 -0500

>The MUG group had a meeting this week with this topic:
>
>There’s a programming website called Advent of Code:
>https://adventofcode.com.

A website very hostile to those with less than perfect visual acuity.

>
>It’s an Advent calendar of 25 small programming puzzles for a variety
>of skill
>sets and levels that can be solved in any programming language you
>like.
>
>You can see the first puzzle at https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/1.
>
>I asked Grok 3 to create a COBOL program.
>This took just a few seconds.

Just curious: Why COBOL? I re-studied COBOL in 2000 when there was a
reported shortage of COBOL programmers, but that didn't last very long.

Is it safe to assume you used GNU Cobol?

Do you understand JCL? There's a GNU JCL, but I couldn't understand JCL
in 1983, and I can't understand it now.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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