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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore

Every day, 3 trillion dollars worth of transactions are handled by a 64-year-old programming language hardly anybody knows anymore.

It's called COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), and despite the fact most schools and universities stopped teaching it decades ago, it remains one of the top programming languages used today

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/ibms-plan-to-update-cobol-with-watson

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