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		781 on March 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders So you think that someone saying that Python or C++ is superior to COBOL is ageist.

gerbilly on March 8, 2019 [–]

Depending on the context yes.

If your bank has some COBOL systems running to keep accounts up to date, do you really want some team of pinheads to 'fix it' by porting it to python?

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