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US nuke arsenal runs on 1970s IBM 'puter waving 8-inch floppies

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"There aren't that many COBOL and Fortran programmers left, and no one is learning those languages these days"

I can assure you the bank I work for still trains many COBOL coders. Usually grunt work churning specs into code though,

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