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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (COBOL History lesson) (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At Uni doing CompSci in the mid 1980s, we were told the likes of Cobol was dead, and we were taught Pascal :)

[โ€“] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 0 points 6 days ago

Cobol is dead.

And I think it's about time to start telling people Java and Perl are dead, so they can marvel at how much Cobol and Java and Perl are still doing in production after death.