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  • "scrambling to find COBOL 'cowboys' to keep things afloat" ... :)

    From Kerry Liles@kerry.liles@gmail.com to comp.lang.cobol on Tue Sep 25 17:02:35 2018
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    <https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/04/10/1441254/major-banks-and-parts-of-federal-govt-still-rely-on-cobol-now-scrambling-to-find-it-cowboys-to-keep-things-afloat>

    Another fluff 'article' on slashdot BUT some of the comments in this
    thread are interesting (plus the usual inane comments which can be funny
    at times...)
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