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Cobol Has Been "Dead" For So Long, My Grandpa Wrote About It (wumpus-cave.net)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I knew a woman whose sole job was maintaining COBOL servers for IBM. She did it for close to 20 years before they updated those servers a few years ago. Not even her supervisor knew how to check her work. lol