libera/#sbcl - IRC Chatlog

16:45:34 Krystof I can hear the ringing applause already

16:45:46 Krystof behold: newline conversion external formats for EBCDIC

16:46:57 Shinmera I'm hootin' and hollerin'

16:48:25 Krystof it's a shame that we have a tree-shaker at the end of the sbcl build process, because I'm finding plenty of dead code as I do this

16:49:51 _death a week ago or so someone mentioned to me that the company they work for (some oil/gas company) still has to deal with EBCDIC every now and then.. one more bullet point in the pro section

16:52:33 ieure I used to work for a bank, we had to deal with EBCDIC in a couple places.

16:53:25 ieure The company that owned that company spent like $8m for Accenture to build them a "modern digital banking" platform in the early 2010s. They built it in COBOL.

16:53:35 ieure The project went so badly that the bank bought Accenture.

16:53:52 ieure Or at least a controlling interest in it.

16:56:35 Krystof I'm sure there's a moral to that story, but I'm not sure what it is

16:59:10 Shinmera Computing was a mistake

17:04:15 jackdaniel My takeaway is that COBOL is the right choice for building modern digital banking at least for the second decade of XXI

17:04:58 jackdaniel does the Steel Bank need a modern digital banking platform?

17:05:00 ieure I think the takeaway is not to outsource your core competency.

18:36:09 hefner sounds like they chose the wrong 1950s programming language