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COBOL is everywhere. Banks, insurance companies, infrastructure. Something like 90+% of all payment transactions are still processed using COBOL. The language
by tapland 6y ago
COBOL is everywhere. Banks, insurance companies, infrastructure. Something like 90+% of all payment transactions are still processed using COBOL.
The language is fine, but it’s the rest of the mainframe that is a pain in the ass to learn.
Oh, and killing ‘awesome’ modern text editors by just opening a 80k LoC file and doing basic regex searches. VS Code works well but Atom not so much.