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What Next TBD: The Code That Runs Your Life

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Cobal Programmers - The Uncomfortable Truth About Cobal Programming

As cobal became more popular, more and more people learned to write it. But then they stopped as more modern computer languages like python and java took over. Now you've got a problem, because all the young grads who are bing crapped out of stanford and m i t and harvard's computer science programs don't know anyhing about coball. So if you're a bank, you know you've got to find someone. And sometimes that is like a seven year old dude who used to work for your bank 30 years ago and who retired. You're paying him like a sand dollars an hour to write like nine lines of coball because there's no one

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