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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

COBOL case is bit different. You can't just modernize millions of lines of code that is functionally unique without service disruption - and services that uses COBOL that large often tends to be very sensitive.

The fact that COBOL as a language is both atrocity to either use or read didn't help that either.