\u201cThe world is running on COBOL,\u201d says IBM\u2019s Tom Ross, aka Captain COBOL.\xa0 He\u2019s not exaggerating: Some 220 billion lines of COBOL process $3 trillion worth of commerce every day \u2013 and 1.5 billion new lines are written each year. Modernization is constant, and that can present challenges when the time comes to compile updated programs.\xa0 \u201cWhen programs don\u2019t get touched for a period of time, they become forgotten,\u201d observes Jim Rahm, co-founder of Source Recovery. \u201cYou can\u2019t fix the problem if you don\u2019t have the source.\u201d Recovering COBOL source code is his business. If you love COBOL, this deep-dive into source-code forensics is a must-listen!
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