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A Emoji Reverse Polish Notation Calculator Written in COBOL (github.com/ghuntley)
33 points by ghuntley on July 9, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


It’s like a tech version of build dice[1] - pick an interface (emoji), app (calculator), and language (cobol)!

[1] https://yetch.studio/products/build-dice


>Built with [heart emoji]

Can you really say that if it's built with AI?


Why not?


A sentence I did not expect to read today.


It’s only a noun phrase.


Party like its 1974


Cool! Now you just need to run calculators written in COBOL on Kubernetes and the circle of insanity will be complete

https://github.com/defenseunicorns-labs/cobol-demo


Cool. But now it needs an Erable implementation written in Modula-2.


Expand and I'll build it.




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