Comments on: Using COBOL As A Shader Language https://setsideb.com/using-cobol-as-a-shader-language/ The Flipside of Gaming Sat, 23 May 2026 08:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: rodneylives https://setsideb.com/using-cobol-as-a-shader-language/#comment-17795 Sat, 23 May 2026 08:59:32 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=12252#comment-17795 In reply to xeny.

Well no. Turing completeness only tells us what can theoretically be computed in principle, it says nothing about hardware interfaces or suitability of data. COBOL is such a weird language, it uses fixed-point math for instance. it was made for human-readable code in the domain of financial applications. I had a college course in it once, although that was many years ago now. It’d be scarcely less likely to work out than writing a shader in Inform 7, a language specific to the domain of writing text adventure games.

]]> By: xeny https://setsideb.com/using-cobol-as-a-shader-language/#comment-17794 Sat, 23 May 2026 08:28:22 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=12252#comment-17794 >Yep, what’s in the title apparently can be done.

Isn’t that an inevitable corollary of Turing completeness?

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