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I found some COBOL. Last comment is from 1985. Written by my mother (twitter.com/grauhut)
25 points by mcenedella on May 27, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Did I understand correctly that the comment translates to 'We don't know what it does but it's called daily and has been running since 1985 without change'?


Yep!


classic mom joke.


My late mother did some programming in a language called "TASMIN" once, which seems to be so obscure I cannot find information on it through a regular Google search, although there are one or two hits at books.google.com such as a 1966 issue of Datamation.




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