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Re: The One-language-per-year Challenge

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Originally Posted by techhelpbb View Post
Robo-Cobol 74:

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Seems to me that this is sort of an opt-in venture. Sounds like fun but I am not sure most teams would want to chance that they switch to an unfamiliar language on what will most certainly be a new platform they will not probably have weeks into a 6 week build. Definitely worth learning to do outside of the build season however.

Gonna be hard to get the IBM mainframe on the robot in the weight limit.
COBOL taught me how to spell Environment correctly

Man that brings back memories
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