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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (COBOL History lesson) (www.youtube.com)

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right. At least 70%. I've heard it estimated as high as 97%.

And it's losing popularity with new development, (and with new developers) while WordPress, Drupal and WikiMedia are everywhere.

Perfect recipe to be the next Cobol.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh I see what you're saying.

Dang, maybe I should learn PHP...

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I liked laravel. It's very rails like.