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

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

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Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 days ago

The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore

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(Or hardly anyone knows)Believe it or not, a 60-year-old programming language, COBOL, still powers major systems like banking and insurance. To be honest, it...

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True most COBOL is in person only. At least from what Ive seen. Big detriment but most systems are on physical computers…so gl!

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