Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote at 03:07 this Friday (GMT):

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/Sometimes/ having an outdated system is beneficial (CloudFlare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.

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   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 .......
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   As such "obsolete" CAN equal "stability".

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Like debian?

Debian has 3 levels: stable, testing, and unstable (Sid).

Pick your poison. I used Sid for many years. Currently I use Testing,
which means sometimes my updates have to be delayed a few hours (as told by
the aptitude interfaces).

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