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Föderation EN Fr 28.03.2025 18:49:56

My father-in-law is a COBOL programmer on social security and he's basically ready to join ISIS at this point

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Föderation EN Fr 28.03.2025 19:08:49

Join ISIS, HATHOR and SEKHMET
in a peaceful apotheosis protest
outside one of the state
legislative buildings,
I'm sure you meant.

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Timo Grün
@khoji@ieji.de

Föderation EN Fr 28.03.2025 19:20:30

@hannah
I guess the banks have finally moved away from COBOL?

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Bill the Lizard
@lizardbill@hachyderm.io

Föderation EN Fr 28.03.2025 21:09:58

@khoji @hannah Mostly, but not entirely. There are still some legacy COBOL systems running in two banks I've worked at.

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Timo Grün
@khoji@ieji.de

Föderation EN Fr 28.03.2025 21:22:29

@lizardbill @hannah
It’s amazing how long some of these systems keep going. I recently heard that my old friend Fortran is still going strong in some physics and maths applications.

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Craig Stuntz
@CraigStuntz@discuss.systems

Föderation EN Fr 28.03.2025 22:41:18

@lizardbill @khoji The commercial Hogan banking software is in COBOL, U.S. Bank uses it as non-legacy code AFAIK. Probably other banks do as well. So while some banks have moved away from COBOL, certainly not all of them.

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Ben Aveling
@BenAveling@infosec.exchange

Föderation EN Fr 28.03.2025 22:14:07

@khoji @hannah hardly. Probably fair to say that no totally new systems are being commissioned in cobol. But plenty of existing cobol systems continue to have new functionality added.

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