Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 29. Sep 2024, 06:42:15
Autres entêtes
Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:28:01 -0400,
186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
And COBOL is STILL with us, just under the skin. Lots of those 60s
pgms writ by narrow-tie horn-rim-glasses Dilberts STILL doing their
thing.
They are disappearing, one way or the other. Companies that are still
insisting on sticking to that legacy code gradually going out of business
or being acquired, and having that technical-debt-ridden stuff superseded
by more modern stuff from the parent company ...
Do you think PayPal, Ebay or TradeMe use COBOL code to manage their
financial transactions? Of course not.
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