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COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it
Delving the depths of computing, hoping not to get eaten by wumpus
In June of 1992, my grandfather had an article published in Technical Support magazine proclaiming the death of Cobol. If you’re not familiar with that term, suffice it to say that the Wikipedia page lists several examples, and Cobol has outlasted most of them. Make no mistake: as much as it was hyped in the news at the time, and as much of a nothingburger it seemed to be, Y2K was a gigantic problem.
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