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An amazing article about COBOL and how deep our investment is in legacy technologies that work really well but are also a dead-end. It also seems that if you know any one of those technologies you can find work up until the moment that you die.

https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money

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