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Banks should let ancient programming language COBOL die

Accepted submission by MrPlow at 2017-04-28 16:22:18
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MrPlow [soylentnews.org] writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Huge part of the world's financial transactions run through systems written in COBOL, banks need to prepare to make a switch to newer programming languages

And here I thought everyone knew banking software should be written in PHP, javascript, or a combination of the two.

Source: https://thenextweb.com/finance/2017/04/25/banks-should-let-ancient-programming-language-cobol-die/ [thenextweb.com]

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