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I created the weirdest political compass (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[โ€“] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

COBOL is about as far from a "toy" as I can imagine. Almost everything corpo runs on it at some level.

[โ€“] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 days ago

And almost no one writes it for fun.