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@hacks4pancakes in case anyone wants to ask, where to learn COBOL, IBM has a course for that https://www.ibm.com/blogs/ibm-training/free-course-announcing-learning-cobol-programming-with-vscode/
Free course: Announcing Learning COBOL Programming with VSCode - IBM Learning Blog

You can take this 16 hour course for free and earn your badge. Get set and dive in for some actual COBOL! This introductory COBOL course helps a novice learn the Structure of COBOL programs, Data types & Variable Handling, Intrinsic Functions, Branching logic and more. The goal of the course is to enable the […]

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@xgebi @hacks4pancakes what in the world is COBOL? this is my first time hearing about but I’d love to know what the uses are for
@jennasmith @xgebi one of the oldest programming languages. The age of your grandma or great grandma. It’s still used all over.
@hacks4pancakes @jennasmith @xgebi And I still speak it fluently