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minus-squaretiredofsametab@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoI doubt it. It’s still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there’s a lot of text manipulation since it’s really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).
minus-squareMajorHavoc@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoYeah. There’s always at least one mission critical Prel script that no one can read.
I doubt it. It’s still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there’s a lot of text manipulation since it’s really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).
Yeah. There’s always at least one mission critical Prel script that no one can read.