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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 22:26:53 -0000 (UTC)
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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 /Sometimes/ having an outdated system is beneficial (CloudFlare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?