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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 22:40:03 -0000 (UTC)
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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 /Sometimes/ having an outdated system is beneficial (CloudFlare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.
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