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COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages | WIRED

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

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@littlealex that NJ COBOL thing was all a hoax. I know cause I spoke to wsj about it at the time, dozens of skilled programmers came forward, and it turned out it wasn't the cobol at all but the shit middleware they paid for.