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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by FlyMoreRockets on Saturday April 11, 2020 @10:16AM (#22841784)
This is true. Back in the day, COBOL was marketed to businiess people as an easy to learn code to just get stuff done. Serious programming was done with FORTRAN.
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by Koshkin on Saturday April 11, 2020 @01:33PM (#22842869)
Actually, FORTRAN was marketed to scientists, not for "serious programming" which was still done in assembler.
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by WorldMaker on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:54PM (#22859357)
Why sometimes still today someone's Jupyter notebook of data science Python is calling into FORTRAN libraries under the hood.
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by bdavis__ on Saturday April 11, 2020 @10:53AM (#22841962)
still true today. (not really, but there is a lot of f77 out there...)
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by eyegor on Saturday April 11, 2020 @01:47PM (#22842956)
I don't know anyone who uses f77 anymore, but f90 and up is still popular in scientific research.
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