Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : 186283 (at) *nospam* ud0s4.net (186282@ud0s4.net)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 04. Oct 2024, 04:07:20
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On 10/3/24 6:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 22:26 this Thursday (GMT):
On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 16:00:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 21:58 this Monday (GMT):
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:48:30 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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I suspect PayPal and Ebay actually do still use COBOL somewhere
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Where would they have got it from? They were both entrepreneurial
startups, offering an entirely new kind of financial/commercial service
essentially from scratch.
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/Sometimes/ having an outdated system is beneficial (CloudFlare
disaster)
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Did COBOL have something to do with that?
Oh, I meant more the couple of companies that managed to keep running
stuff, like Southwest.
Well ... sometimes an 'obsolete' language as the
base of your operations - kinda like "Latin" - it
doesn't really CHANGE anymore, No COBOL-2025 where
they've changed half the stuff .......
As such "obsolete" CAN equal "stability".
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