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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by govg on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:01AM (#25079756)
Wouldn't languages like COBOL rank pretty highly because a lot of legacy banking systems are written in that?
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by webmaven on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:45AM (#25108486)
Yes, but frankly, C would still cause more havoc because even if the mainframes somehow continued to run, they would still be effectively inaccessible over any network.
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