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submitted 10 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends to c/[email protected]

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[–] hglman 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's a pretty good analogy, but it's Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.

[–] aodhsishaj 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Grace Fucking Hopper

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

So move fast and break things, 60s edition.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Cobol is a Hornet. Still used for production in first-world countries, but basically just because of shitty, slow-moving institutions.