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kimi on Sept 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Has anyone here learned COBOL for fun?

Decade? My team once happened to maintain a file that was originally checked-in in the 1970s... (edit: Not sure if I'm more in awe of the fact that the procedure was still used or because mainframe code was under version control in the 70s and you still can see who did what and why).

pixl97 on Sept 12, 2023 [–]

Decades with an 's', yea, this code has been around a very long time in most cases.

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