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《连线》 2026年5月刊 · 中文解读

代码中的石棉:COBOL语言的困境

THE ASBESTOS OF CODE · Zeb Larson
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本文探讨了COBOL编程语言的历史、广泛使用及其难以替换的现状,将其比作数字时代的石棉。
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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。
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