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Re:What’s New In Python 3.4 by ams6110 on Sunday October 20, 2013 @07:37PM (#6582096)
If I had to guess, the same thing that has some places still stuck on COBOL.
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Re:What’s New In Python 3.4 by next89 on Sunday October 20, 2013 @07:57PM (#6582165)
It's amazing how a lot of big financial institutions are still running on COBOL.
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Re:What’s New In Python 3.4 by meepmorp on Sunday October 20, 2013 @08:26PM (#6582291)
Not just financial institutions - I've seen it when consulting at older medium-to-large companies. They've got new mainframes and code they've been running with minor patches for 30 some years.

I find the mainframe fascinating, honestly. It's an entirely different world than the one I'm used to, from terminology to how systems are structured.

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