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Banks will "maybe" be done with COBOL in ten years
- whobre 2y agoWhich is what they said in 1990 as well.
- arresin 2y agoWhy is it so hard to replace? Are the algorithms just that good / impenetrable? Is the language particularly well suited for the task?
- CraigRo 2y agoTheres a whole mainframe ecosystem of schedulers, databases, disk formats, batches, 3270 screens etc that are hard to replace piecemeal
- jjgreen 2y agoFully translated to F77 by then ...