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Saturday, February 26, 2022

COBOL

IEEE Spectrum has an article about the increasing problem of all the COBOL programmers retiring.  I used to room with a guy whose personalized license plate was I COBOL.

I have actually written a trivial COBOL program once long ago, as trivial as any COBOL program can be.  Have you ever looked at all the crap that starts a COBOL program?