Making Minesweeper in COBOL

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Truttle1

Күн бұрын

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@Truttle1 Жыл бұрын

discord: discord.gg/EKPBjjUc65

@ZemanTheMighty Жыл бұрын

Hey I saw you seeded your random variables with the system clock! Do you remember my little election simulator? I did that too. I’m glad that it wasn’t just my crackhead idea and that there’s literally no better way to do it.

@Vallee152 Жыл бұрын

@@ZemanTheMighty doesn't Minecraft get its seed from the system clock if you don't specify it?

@ZemanTheMighty Жыл бұрын

@@Vallee152 it does?! That’s a really cool fact

@moltony 10 ай бұрын

@@ZemanTheMightySeeding the random number generator with system time is actually very common

@Lim95 Жыл бұрын

Can you believe it? Cobol. Just a week away!

@NickiRusin Жыл бұрын

cobol is in a week!

@sysy_ep Жыл бұрын

Cobol is in a week! Wooho! I'm so happy for this information Cobol, just a week away, oh wow Can you believe it? Cobol, just in a week! It got here so fast.. Cobol. Just a week away!

@ZemanTheMighty Жыл бұрын

Sometimes I feel like me and Truttle are the last COBOL coders of our generation. I love these videos

@Truttle1 Жыл бұрын

I mean, if we’re in the same generation we might be the only 2 cobol programmers

@ZemanTheMighty Жыл бұрын

@@Truttle1You are probably in my generation +- 5 years so I count it

@GeronKizan Жыл бұрын

I remember learning COBOL and advanced COBOL in my last two years of college before I graduated in 2002. I thought it was gonna be useful since I thought I was gonna be working around the area (Davenport, Iowa) where there were a lot of machines that still used it, especially at John Deere

@sameer1321 Жыл бұрын

this video was very hard to watch due to my severe COBOL allergy, but I managed to watch it anyway Merry COBOL!!!

@NickiRusin Жыл бұрын

get well soon 🙏

@xenonbox9393 Жыл бұрын

How is it that whenever a Truttle1 video comes out the audio quality is always a gamble. Sometimes it's the quality of a good studio recording, sometimes it's like a soviet train station announcer.

@Ramonatho Жыл бұрын

Cobol seems shockingly usable in a world full of functions with names so similar, like p=+p.

@Blue-Maned_Hawk Жыл бұрын

What?

@moltony Жыл бұрын

its a great day when Truttle1 uploads 🎉

@betsyrocketram Жыл бұрын

these videos are nice since my grandpa was actually a cobol coder! and when he told me that I actually knew what it was since I've seen your videos lol.

@kellybmackenzie Жыл бұрын

Your videos are always really funny and I love the effort you put into the little animations! You deserve a lot more views!

@IceMetalPunk Жыл бұрын

In modern JavaScript, hoisting doesn't have to happen, if you just use const and let for all your variables -- which I absolutely do and 100% recommend any JS dev do. Even though I've been a JS dev for 21 years, hoisting has always been the dumbest feature of the language to me. (Speaking of 21 years... did you have to remind us that you were born after 2000, to make me feel ancient? 😔)

@HexOverride Жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD ITS BACK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

@retroboi128thegamedev Жыл бұрын

Ancient mines from the days of COBOL placed across the board, The process of sweeping those mines started back in 1989 We are still sweeping mines to this day.

@jdrukman 3 ай бұрын

In 1992 I got a job at Oracle. They had a weird technology called OCI that let you write database code intermixed with normal programming language statements. My job was to write example programs for OCI in various languages. Since I was the new kid on the block, I got all the obsolete languages, including COBOL. Even in the 90s COBOL was already old news. Just finding a compiler for a Sun workstation was a pain in the behind. There was no Internet so you couldn't look up where one might be. I did find one eventually on an FTP server somewhere. Then I had to teach myself COBOL, or at least enough to get the job done. I had managed to successfully block out all memory of what it looked like or how it worked. Then I watched your video. I will be sending you a bill from my psychiatrist, sorry about that.

@vicr123 Жыл бұрын

Merry COBOL!!!

@BeconIsYeck Жыл бұрын

glad to see you again during the holidays

@n8chz 6 ай бұрын

I coded reversi (Othello) in Cobol, also that snake thing. That was a long time ago.

@zoltanpataki1307 7 ай бұрын

The way picture is defined makes sense when you read or write formatted data. PICTURE IS 9999/99/99 can be used for dates. when printing the value, the / will be printed automatically. Another example is Z vs 9. If you have 999, leading zeros will be printed if the number does not use all decimal places. ZZ9 will supress leading zeros by getting printed as spaces. You are not directly defining what the variable holds, but what should it look like. i.e. the picture of it.

@CrippleX89 Жыл бұрын

Merry COBOL, Truttle1!

@lalalifull Жыл бұрын

In Japan, some bank accounts are managed by COBOL yet… Some old people say “traditions”.

@imperiallegionnaire8344 Жыл бұрын

Aparently my Grandfather knew Cobol. He apparently used it reorganize his bookstore.

@lior_haddad Жыл бұрын

3:38 python also does this... the only difference is that javascript's `var` keyword is old and deprecated, and allows you to use an uninitialized variable.

@lior_haddad Жыл бұрын

I will gladly accept javascript slander (js suc) but this one's rather unfounded

@qwertzuioppel 10 ай бұрын

guess who deserves waaaay more attention because the content produced by that person is extremely entertai- yeah it's Truttle1

@Vallee152 Жыл бұрын

5:02 I'm just built different. I constantly ask for permission for even the smallest things and it's extremely difficult to apologise

@jasperthegamemaster9237 11 ай бұрын

I have a song for these videos have a hairy scary COBOL and in case you weren't in fear have a hairy scary COBOL this year

@minzmango1915 Жыл бұрын

the bowser inside story ost gave me instant nostalgia

@scliffbartoni9771 Жыл бұрын

Omg happy cobol to all

@kornsuwin Жыл бұрын

oh god he's still doing it

@Rignchen Жыл бұрын

Merry Cobol!

@nnnArchive Жыл бұрын

I’m working on using cosmos to make an OS in C#!

@jakubknotek4891 29 күн бұрын

Great content! Subbed!

@vodam6970 Жыл бұрын

yay, my video idea got made! just because i tried making minesweeper in C

@CrushedAsian255 Жыл бұрын

Sorry I don’t know what happened to my membership, take this ❤😊😊

@jacobusburger Жыл бұрын

At this point I’m convinced Truttle1 IS the last COBOL programmer. But seriously, how did you learn to do this?

@jayman1462 Жыл бұрын

MERRY COBOL!!!

@Scudmaster11 Жыл бұрын

How about SNOBOL now?

@cheesuschrist300 Жыл бұрын

yes!!! cobol

@Mrcake0103 Жыл бұрын

Wait, no recursion? Are we _sure_ this thing’s actually Turing Complete? Like, how would you try to compute Ackerman’s function in COBOL?

@Truttle1 Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure all recursive functions can be written iteratively so it should be possible

@everynametaken Жыл бұрын

It was made before stacks were a thing on most computers, so subroutines didn't allow recursion (nor was recursion really a thing for any language of the time). Technically there is a RECURSIVE keyword, but it doesn't appear to have caught on. Recursion isn't needed for Turing-completeness, once you get down to it it's basically replaceable with a GOTO.

@raskr8137 Жыл бұрын

@@everynametaken That really speaks to how old the language is since stacks have become a common built-in processor feature way back in the 80s

@jdrukman 3 ай бұрын

@@Truttle1 you are correct! One of the first things I learned in my high school algorithms class back in the mid 1980s. This served me well in my first job out of college programming 6502 assembly language. I had to convert spreadsheet equations in reverse Polish notation to infix notation. A C programmer I worked with recommended I use a recursive function.. I told him "to hell with that. I'm not writing recursion in assembly language." Luckily, I remembered my high school class and even better, I still had my textbook which had a description of how you do this exact conversion without using recursion. (The answer is two stacks). I was so pleased when I actually got it to assemble and run correctly! 30+ years later, this is still one of the standout moments of my career.