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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 10:44:48 +0100
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On 04/10/2024 04:07, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> On 10/3/24 6:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 22:26 this Thursday (GMT):
>>> On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 16:00:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 21:58 this Monday (GMT):
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:48:30 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I suspect PayPal and Ebay actually do still use COBOL somewhere
>>>>>
>>>>> Where would they have got it from? They were both entrepreneurial
>>>>> startups, offering an entirely new kind of financial/commercial 
>>>>> service
>>>>> essentially from scratch.
>>>>
>>>> /Sometimes/ having an outdated system is beneficial (CloudFlare
>>>> disaster)
>>>
>>> Did COBOL have something to do with that?
>>
>>
>> Oh, I meant more the couple of companies that managed to keep running
>> stuff, like Southwest.
> 
>    Well ... sometimes an 'obsolete' language as the
>    base of your operations - kinda like "Latin" - it
>    doesn't really CHANGE anymore, No COBOL-2025 where
>    they've changed half the stuff .......
> 
>    As such "obsolete" CAN equal "stability".
> 
Wheels have been round for millennia..

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