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   Thomas Koenig to Lynn McGuire   
   Re: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CA?= sobering, sho   
   07 Aug 25 18:57:04   
   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
   > 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.   
      
   Gcc just added GCC cobol: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/changes.html#cobol   
   I guess somebody must want it for something.   
      
      
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