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Putting John Backus on a giant pedestal

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Lynn McGuire

Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcQQ==?= sobering, short

07 Aug 25 02:23:55

   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 22:24:36 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
      
   > I want to forget Cobol.  I tried to learn Cobol back in the 1970s.   
   > Never again.   
      
   There were apparently a lot of very-high-paying jobs in maintaining old   
   Cobol code, certainly around the time of Y2K, but I thought some of it did   
   continue after.   
      
   Has that all gone?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)

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