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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (COBOL History lesson) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 10 points 2 days ago

The world's not too bright, then, is it?

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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Still on my to-learn list.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I learned on gnucobol. I believe it was updated to opencobol at some point.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

I’ll learn it if you pay me $1 million/year

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