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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by luckylion on Saturday April 11, 2020 @03:37AM (#22840231)
And now that they're broken, they can't be fixed. ;)

With so many legacy systems that are often in very important places, I wonder whether it wouldn't be smarter to spend money on systems converting a modern language to cobol, e.g. python2cobol. Is that impossible?

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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by number6 on Saturday April 11, 2020 @03:43AM (#22840251)
I guess there are technical reasons. a big bank does risk assessment. I can't imagine a problem like this will go unnoticed for long
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