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

[Aaron Kulkis]

In my experience, almost all software from IBM really sucks.
Their hardware is always impressive and high quality, but their
programmers... I don't know what's wrong with them.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> 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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