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Re:Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power by Chaebixi on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @02:36PM (#13989230)
> There most be an increasing amount of hardware/software with egregious business value (hundred million+) with a decreasing number of surviving/available designers etc.

See COBOL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL

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Re:Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power by aedron on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:00AM (#13995383)
Yeah. I see a lot of COBOL guys that are extremely critical resources for big enterprises. As GP said, they are not paid like C-suite executives, but not very far from it, and no one asks them how they spend their time. Needless to say they are a very relaxed bunch.
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