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Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by russh on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:15PM (#21293739)
There is RPGII code I wrote back in the 80's that is still in daily use today. Most of the people who know I wrote the code have passed on, so the support calls have stopped.
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Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by wglb on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:52PM (#21294078)
Partway through that particular gig, the IBM CE came by and installed COBOL. (For many years, I had ranted about how much I hated COBOL.) So I transitioned all the RPG code to COBOL and what a relief.

So I had to eat a little crow.

Shortly after my gig, they went full scale IBM and built an IT department, as opposed to just a system 34 in accounting.

So no support calls for me.

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