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Re:Ancient programming language gets new life in the cloud t... by jacquesm on Sunday August 27, 2023 @07:21AM (#37281522)
Focus on distressed stuff, that's where the money is in COBOL.
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Re:Ancient programming language gets new life in the cloud t... by cutler on Sunday August 27, 2023 @08:19AM (#37281933)
"Distressed stuff"?
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Re:Ancient programming language gets new life in the cloud t... by jacquesm on Sunday August 27, 2023 @08:26AM (#37281985)
Companies in a panic because some critical system broke / some critical system needs to be kept alive for a bit longer but all of the original people maintaining it have already left.
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