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→ A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language. DON’T INHALE COBOL is the asbestos of programming languages. BY ZEB LARSON e a r ly i n t h e Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unem- ployment insurance systems were writ- ten in the 60-year-old programming language and needed to be updated to handle the hundreds of thousands of claims. Trouble was, few of the state’s employees knew how to do that. And the crisis went beyond New Jersey, just one of many states that depended on these unwieldy systems. …
摘自《连线》(Wired)2026年5月刊,Zeb Larson。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。