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Ask HN: Experience with freelance development that is Not web dev or mobile?

2 points| 946789987649 | 9 years ago

Curious to what sort of applications you've made and how you got into it? Languages used? Thanks!

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[+] flashm|9 years ago|reply
Cheque writing software, written in COBOL.

Got the work through a family friend, it's his business. I had to learn COBOL (managed through Visual Studio these days thank god) and have ended up contributing to the main application, converting Microsoft c++ and c# examples into COBOL, e.g Gdi32 printing, windows forms, wpf and so on.

Luckily as it's Managed COBOL and based on .NET you can call classes written in C++/C# so I've been doing that where possible!

Good fun and completely different to my usual line of Web Dev.