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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 /Sometimes/ having an outdated system is beneficial (CloudFlare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".