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65 years of COBOL. Timeless, or time’s up?
The enterprise computer language, COBOL, was first named in September 1959, by members of the CODASYL committee.
Today, 65 years on, COBOL continues to run huge parts of the commercial and government sectors in many nations, often (though by no means exclusively) running on IBM mainframes, and remains in the ...
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