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Anthropic's new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, sending 115-year-old IBM's stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% MoM and counting (www.tomshardware.com)
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Ancient language is still the bread-and-butter of mainframe systems

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[–] xep@discuss.online 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's not hard to learn COBOL. However, the intricacies of the system that The Wizard maintains is another matter altogether.

[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 8 points 22 hours ago

I would argue that learning those intricaties is a part of learning the language. Otherwise you just know the syntax, somewhat like a LLM.