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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)
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[–] hglman@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 13 points 2 years ago

Grace Fucking Hopper

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

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