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On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 20:15:24 -0500, c186282 wrote:

> On 1/8/26 09:43, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 19:21:09 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>
>>>> FORTRAN and COBOL are still around, but I don't thinks anyone from
>>>> the 70s would recognize them.
>>>
>>> COBOL is still COBOL. Fortran has evolved somewhat, post-Fortran-77.
>> 
>> Modern COBOL is very different than COBOL-68 (or even COBOL-84).
>> 
>> It even has pointers.
> 
>    Then is it even still "COBOL" ? "NuBOL" instead ?

That triggered a distant memory of SNOBOL.