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How can there be so much "business logic" for a company that they cannot drop their old COBOL/mainframe code? [closed]
Something which has always confused me is this. I keep hearing about how these big, old corporations which were around in the 1950s (for example) and early on started using COBOL-coded business logic ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Modern practices for stored procedure-based applications
I work in a fairly large and old solution that has many entry points for different kinds of clients, with web sites for public access, web sites for internal access, some web sites and web services ...
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Modern programming language with intuitive concurrent programming abstractions [closed]
I am interested in learning concurrent programming, focusing on the application/user level (not system programming). I am looking for a modern high level programming language that provides intuitive ...