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I used to work at a TBTF financial institution. During orientation, they told us that their mainframes process roughly 1/3 of US credit card transactions. The l

I used to work at a TBTF financial institution. During orientation, they told us that their mainframes process roughly 1/3 of US credit card transactions. The low-level code is 40-year old Fortran that still performs swimmingly.

cyansmoker 11y ago
People think of Fortran and Cobol as similar, due to their age. Put simply: they are not.