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Cobol was the modern day Cobol in 1995, and that was just 20 years ago. 85 years is a long time.
by drumdance 11y ago
Cobol was the modern day Cobol in 1995, and that was just 20 years ago. 85 years is a long time.
- facepalm 11y ago1995? Are you sure? I started studying maths and computer science in 1993 and Cobol was ever only mentioned as a remote curiosity. I remember Pascal, Perl and C/C++ were common.
- drumdance 11y agoYes but it was still dominant in terms of actual code in production. I remember working at a consulting firm then and we had a ton of work in Cobol and JCL. Banks in particular but also telecom. Client-server 4GLs were really starting to take off -- PowerBuilder, Visual Basic -- but those got washed away with the web.