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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 · 7 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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Hey, I know a lot of COBOL developers and, on average, the last change the code they are working on happened just 20 years ago!

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