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[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 6 points 9 months ago

Also, isn't COBOL extremely fast ? Which is not necessarily true for newer languages

[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Rust: am i a joke to you?

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

I think that's mostly because of the systems COBOL usually runs on, not so much because of the language

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago

You're probably thinking of Fortran, which is still used for hardcore number crunching in areas like physics.

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