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   Lynn McGuire to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
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   07 Aug 25 13:31:42   
   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/6/2025 9:23 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   I hear that Cobol is still going strong in ports from Mainframe   
   MVS/CMS/etc to Linux operating systems.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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