
What Next TBD: The Code That Runs Your Life
Slate Technology
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Cobal Programming - The Uncomfortable Truth
As cobal became more popular, more and more people learned to write it. More modern computer languages like python and java took over. Now you've got a problem, because all the young grads who are being crapped out of stanford and m i t and harvard's computer science programs aren't learning 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. The code is probably going to outlive its coders, which means it will also outlive the collective knowledge of how to fix things when they inevitably go
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