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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:16:18 +0100
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On 09/10/2024 21:36, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> 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 /Sometimes/ having an outdated system is beneficial (CloudFlare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).
> 

I  ditched debian because stable was years behind the curve, Mint 
appearto be based on 'testing'


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