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Re:Why learn C? by batista on Thursday June 28, 2012 @11:10AM (#4172019)
Actually Cobol is pretty much everywhere in the substrate, but not in visible places... banks, insurance companies, and the like have tons of cobol code in use.
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Re:Why learn C? by RodgerTheGreat on Thursday June 28, 2012 @11:43AM (#4172211)
And if we count VBA, VB6 and VB.net as spiritual successors to BASIC there's an absolutely ungodly amount of new BASIC code in use and being written every day anywhere people use Excel. It's ugly, but it's a large part of how business is done.
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