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COBOL: After 60+ Years, the Language Continues to Show Lasting Resilience

By Dick Weisinger

COBOL (the common business-oriented language) was originally designed in the late 1950’s and started to be used commercially in 1960, primarily for business, finance and administrative systems. COBOL is designed to be English-like, imperative, procedural, and portable. There have been

Java JDK: Users Flee from Oracle Support

By Dick Weisinger

After January 2019 Oracle discontinued posting Java SE updates that could be used commercially. Now commercial users are required to purchase support for Oracle Java. The consequence of Oracle’s decision is that many products that use Java already have or

JAMStack: Improving Web App Performance and Security

By Dick Weisinger

A new style of app development is gaining in popularity: JAMStack. It is a kind of software architecture and philosophy. ‘JAM’ stands for Javascript, APIs and Markup. The Markup in JAMStacks refers to static markup deployed with the app from

Coding: Using AI to Translate Between Programming Languages

By Dick Weisinger

Code migration. Translating computer code from one programming language to another is tedious, time consuming, and expensive. When migrating from legacy systems or legacy ways of operating, it often can’t be escaped. Code translators are also often used to rewrite

Programming Languages: Python Begins to Edge Out Java in Popularity

By Dick Weisinger

Python has been gaining on Java in terms of popularity, and by some measures, has surpassed it. A report by JetBrains found that Java remains the most widespread primary computing language, Python has become the most used language The report