I have seen the future, and it is COBOL

[smikes]

This 20-minute talk introduces the hot new scripting language, COBOLscript, introduced by DeskWare in 1999, and written about by @smikes (me) in this 1999 article in LinuxWorld

https://web.archive.org/web/20000619174402/http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-11/lw-11-cobol_p.html

The talk includes:

• a brief history of Cobol
• explanation of the need for enterprise-grade scripting languages
• punched cards
• authentic Y2K panic emails

Sam Mikes is a programmer and a graduate of clown college.

[jennschiffer]

Thank you for submitting. Unfortunately COBOL has no place in my conference - but also I had already chosen the lineup before you submitted, but hopefully you can still make it to DHTMLConf 2000. :santa:

[smikes]

Waah. See you @ DHTMLConf