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Originally Posted by kanoa1kale2
Had to respond - COBOL is ancient - If kept updated, it will continue to do the job it was programmed for. One got writers cramps coding it. They also still use Big OS in DC. Most who knew anything about that are dead and gone. Strange that they have so much trouble replacing these older systems.
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This post is mostly false. COBOL is still used, though less frequently. Those of us who learned It back in the day did not get writers cramps because it was tediously entered on keyboards to punched cards and debugged on huge green-screen tractor feed paper. My oldest son, now a robotics computer engineer, also had to learn it and used it at his internship at FERMI National Science Labs in 2009. I am, thankfully, alive and many of my classmates are very much alive too.