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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Just a month or so ago. Dead serious... caught me by surprise but I did it. It's been over 12 years since I had even seen COBOL.
That's nothing, I programmed a predecessor of a CNC machine which uses punched cards couple of years back That's technology that was mostly dead before I was even born... It was actually a lot of fun

However, COBOL is dead as much as the punched card technology. And within 10-20 years, there probably won't be HTML anymore as well. Or Flash for that matter... Linux, however, will probably still exist as a platform
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Last edited by zwer; 2010-05-06 at 08:22.