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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Also, isn't COBOL extremely fast ? Which is not necessarily true for newer languages

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Rust: am i a joke to you?

[–] Hawk 4 points 2 years ago

I think that's mostly because of the systems COBOL usually runs on, not so much because of the language

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You're probably thinking of Fortran, which is still used for hardcore number crunching in areas like physics.