SMRTR TechOct 1, 2024Hacker News

COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it

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Despite being declared "dead" in 1992, COBOL still clings to life in legacy systems, surviving Y2K and maintaining a long tail of usage, even though new programmers rarely learn this aging language.

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