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What domain do you think COBOL was made for?

Basically the only things computers were worth it for back then were scientific calculations and bookkeeping. Banking is obviously on the more complicated end of bookkeeping. Insurance did get a special COBOL variant because I guess they had some tasks shaped more like scientific calculations too.



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