Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : candycanearter07 (at) *nospam* candycanearter07.nomail.afraid (candycanearter07)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 03. Oct 2024, 23:40:03
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Organisation : the-candyden-of-code
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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.
/Sometimes/ having an outdated system is beneficial (CloudFlare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.
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