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Inheritance (lemmy.curiana.net)

submitted 2 days ago by ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I remember reading a fascinating article (or Reddit post, at the time when those were sometimes awesome) from this guy interviewing his mom, a COBOL programmer... Wondering if it's related...

Update: found it but it was deleted

Update: found it on the waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160719020302/https://medium.com/@Svenskunganka/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe-cobol-programmer-c693d40d88f7#.kiw240b6p

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

The smaller banks however are better off which usually runs something like Java without mainframes.

I'm not so sure about that...

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Great read, thanks for that!