Comment on If it ain't broke

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• alchemist2023@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  too be fair I studied Latin at school 40 years ago so this tracks

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We found a COBOL programmer in the wild!

    I’d ask you to retire and finally give a young person a chance, but none of them want to wait for floppy drives to load.

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I work with COBOL programmers who came to Australia as adult refugees from an American war in South East Asia

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Excuse my ignorance but is COBOL still spoken there? Sometimes language islands survive you wouldn’t expect

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I met a young man intent on learning, not as a first language, but he had hopes of becoming fluent

      My past job was as a translator between business (in their “requirements” and “feature” languages) to COBOL programmers in something like careful unambiguous English (of which most have a reasonable understanding)

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