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corty
on May 16, 2021
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Half a million lines of Go
Java is the new COBOL. It will not be replaced in this century.
AnimalMuppet
on May 16, 2021
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(Checks calendar.) Oh. That's... quite a while. Longer than the entire history of high-level languages, in fact.
Not sure you're wrong, though...
lanstin
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COBOL is still used and the language gets releases. 220 billion lines of COBOL? We are still in the era of more things are becoming programmable and we are writing code for those new things, not consolidating and fixing up the old code.
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