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During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, multiple U.S. states urgently recruited COBOL programmers because their unemployment benefit systems relied on COBOL.

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7/6/2026
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Grace Hopper: How the Mother of Compilers Changed the History of Software Development
hackernewshackernews7/5/2026

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