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On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:58:58 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> As I used to say back in the mainframe days:
> 
> Everybody uses COBOL because everybody uses COBOL.

FORTRAN.  COBOL was for brain dead business people who loved to type...