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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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candycanearter07 wrote this post; take it under advisement:

> 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote at 03:07 this Friday (GMT):
>> 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 /Sometimes/ having an outdated system is beneficial (CloudFlare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".
>
> Like debian?

Debian has 3 levels: stable, testing, and unstable (Sid).

Pick your poison. I used Sid for many years. Currently I use Testing,
which means sometimes my updates have to be delayed a few hours (as told by
the aptitude interfaces).

-- 
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	"A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem."