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Re:North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient... by rosstex on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:27PM (#25556671)
We teach that it was a thing once. And that meteorologists still use it. The rest of my COBOL knowledge came from my dad :)
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Re:North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient... by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:53PM (#25556780)
Why would meteorologists use COBOL? Wouldn't FORTRAN be more likely?
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Re:North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient... by rhizome on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:22AM (#25556922)
I can't find anything in Google, but if this was a game show and I had to guess, I'd say that the modeling is/was done in FORTRAN, but the reporting was done with COBOL.
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Re:North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient... by rosstex on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @02:41PM (#25573886)
Correction: I probably meant FORTRAN, thanks!
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