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What teenager gets out of bed in the morning and thinks "I know! I'll learn a language that they stopped writing new apps in before my mother was born and that will only run on ancient hardware! I'll get a job maintaining stuff nobody understand, including me!"
Most of 'em spend half the morning getting up, farting, scratching their testicles (or equivelant), and panicing over what to change their farcebook status to!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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A friend came out of retirement 3 time to accept 1 year COBOL contracts, as they money they were tossing at him was too good to pass up. Plus he was bored.
When serious throughput is required, our modern languages miss the mark, sometimes by a lot. Plus replacing the infrastructure is far too costly. Learning COBOL today is not a bad choice, although I'd learn Java as well, as I see a fair amount of Java running on mainframes.
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It appears that the OP really does want a COBOL solution. Either that or he has no idea what C syntax looks like. 
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Actually this is pretty good. As the number of qualified COBOL developers is diminishing ( sorry guys, but that is just life ) they need more younger people to replace them. Actually, I am looking forward to do some 'C' development work after I retire in about 7 years or so. Big Dollars/Euros to keep ancient systems up and running because by then most youngsters won't have a clue as to what 'C' is all about.
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I'd love to do the same, as a hobby, in Assembly language. Over 30 years later, I'm still astounded at what I could make a lousy '286 or '386 do. They don't write them that way, any more. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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fd9750 wrote: ( sorry guys, but that is just life )
Well, to be precise, it's not-life. But yeah.
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Of course you are 100% right but then again life and the inevitable end of it is unavoidable 
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There's still a huge amount of COBOL code running everything from banking to government to utilities to basically any industry that computerized early. Those programmers are retiring and in many cases, dead. COBOL is coming back into style as a result and COBOL jobs are some of the highest paying programming jobs available.
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I remember near the start of the pandemic, some state in the USA had their ancient, insufficiently maintained, Cobol-based unemployment claim system fall over and they begged Cobol experts to come and fix it for free.
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Something Not to do in the wind[^]
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Which is your favorite?
Constraints:
1. Browser based (No Php/asp)
2. No ads
3. Snappy UX
4. Syntax warning (And automatic fix suggestion - *greedy eyes*)
5. Persistent - Page refresh shouldnt make you lose data - silly :/
6. Ability to upload a file dump (instead of just copy paste)
7. Ability to create multiple tabs - good to have
8. Free 
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I use this to view/convert raw json. view mostly.
codebeautify - json[^]
** you paste your raw JSON in the left pane and then click the "tree viewer" button to see it formatted and collapsible, etc.
I just edit the JSON in Visual Code or Visual Studio if I am using that.
I also believe there is an extension for Visual Code that "beutifies/formats" raw json for easier reading.
modified 31-Mar-21 8:43am.
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I've used this site several times (for various reasons).
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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CodeBeautify
I think it fits most/all of your criteria (other than the ads, I guess - but then “ads pay for my internet “).plus, they have a bunch of other handy stuff I use besides JSON.
TTFN - Kent
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It has taken me 14 years to score 10000 rep points. At this rate, it will only take me another 3771 years to reach @OriginalGriff's current score.
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OG's rep points graph is exponential; ours are linear.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Surprisingly, it's pretty linear. If you go to my home page: OriginalGriff - Professional Profile[^] and click the "reputation" tab you'll see what I mean.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It's not entirely linear, at the current pace your debator points will overtake your authority points in a few years.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Surprisingly, it's pretty linear.
On a half-log graph? 
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Congratulations!
Have a few more to help you on your way to overtaking me.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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jsc42 wrote: me another 3771 years to reach @OriginalGriff's current score.
With Griff nearly hitting his first billion.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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That's a wild exaggeration!
I'll be about 50,000,000 short ... 
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does your unread messages indicator still say something like 50K+ (that was last year, I believe)?
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91,703
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