• psud@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    I work with COBOL programmers who came to Australia as adult refugees from an American war in South East Asia

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      4 months ago

      Excuse my ignorance but is COBOL still spoken there? Sometimes language islands survive you wouldn’t expect

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        4 months ago

        I met a young man intent on learning, not as a first language, but he had hopes of becoming fluent

        My past job was as a translator between business (in their “requirements” and “feature” languages) to COBOL programmers in something like careful unambiguous English (of which most have a reasonable understanding)