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[-] hglman@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

That's a pretty good analogy, but it's Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.

[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago
[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

So move fast and break things, 60s edition.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 10 months ago

Cobol is a Hornet. Still used for production in first-world countries, but basically just because of shitty, slow-moving institutions.

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