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		AnimalMuppet on April 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t th... OK, but in C I have functions to open, read, and write sockets. Do I have them in COBOL? This matters, because with C I can connect my existing C software to a web server, which lets me tie ancient software into the modern infrastructure. I suspect that's harder to do with COBOL...

Koshkin on April 7, 2021 | [–]

Well, C only “has” these things because they are in a library (which, by the way, doesn’t even have to be written in C).

pjmlp on April 7, 2021 | [–]

Yes, you even do have objects for that matter.

Latest Cobol revision is from 2014 and you even have Visual Cobol, https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/featu...

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