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I created the weirdest political compass (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

COBOL is about as far from a "toy" as I can imagine. Almost everything corpo runs on it at some level.

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[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

And almost no one writes it for fun.

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