Episode from the podcast Programming Throwdown
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COBOL and Mainframe Computing
Released Thursday, September 28th 2017 1 hr 20 min
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About this episode
Did you know that there was a programming language co-invented by a consortium of government offices and top businesses (at the time)? Today we talk about that language: COBOL, and also discuss the mainframe computers of that era that ran COBOL.
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