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COBOL's Back (again)

in Ex-Facebook

Once, on Facebook I wrote:

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/ibm-will-offer-free-cobol-training-to-address-overloaded-unemployment-systems

Sneaky setup for “Hidden Figures 2?”

I learned the basics of COBOL in order to be prepared for the Year 2000 bug (“Y2K”). Didn’t really need to be done, but I was thankful to appreciate a different paradigm of computation.

But those check printing machines still run on it and we’re about to stimulus a lot of those machines back to life.