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Teiwaz

Re: "COBOL programmers of the 2030s?

I don't know about COBOL. but I challenge anyone to name another language that's as portable as 'C'

That sounds like a direct comparison.

COBOL is no threat to 'C', and vice-versa. They both have totally different ideal uses.

You wouldn't dream of trying to write drivers in COBOL, and anyone trying to write the sort of business logic you can easily do in COBOL in 'C' needs their pointers extracted.

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