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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (COBOL History lesson) (www.youtube.com)
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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I doubt it. It's still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there's a lot of text manipulation since it's really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I made good money on EDI.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah. There's always at least one mission critical Prel script that no one can read.