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Re:Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S.... by decimalenough on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @03:25AM (#43829590)
The "real world" of airline reservations, the world's financial infrastructure and basically anything involving hardcore real data processing runs on COBOL.

But yeah, if you're looking to code up a progressive web app or next blockbuster MMORPG, I wouldn't recommend COBOL.

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Re:Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S.... by sofixa on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @03:47AM (#43829726)
The top (in the world) 2 airline reservation system Amadeus have ported everything to Kubernetes for years now. In fact they were among the top contributors to the project a few years back.

It's all a matter of age and maturity. Nobody starting an airline, or financial company, or "hardcore data processing" today even bothers considering a mainframe or COBOL.

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Re:Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S.... by 8fingerlouie on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @04:37AM (#43830037)
In fact, starting over is often the thing that is the easiest to accomplish instead of porting 50 years of legacy code.
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Re:Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S.... by oblio on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:51AM (#43830493)
At least as much mission critical software runs on C++, Java, and of course, plain old C.

I wouldn't portray Cobol to be some sort of magic "hardcore" pixie dust for anything.

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Re:Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S.... by pastage on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @06:15AM (#43830664)
Fair point! From a personal perspective it was about interfacing with the real world like parsing data, bitbanging or writing drivers. I actually have no problem with doing BI web apps with COBOL.
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