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LargoLasskhyfv
on Dec 28, 2020
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Why would meteorologists use COBOL? Wouldn't FORTRAN be more likely?
rhizome
on Dec 28, 2020
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I can't find anything in Google, but if this was a game show and I had to guess, I'd say that the modeling is/was done in FORTRAN, but the
reporting
was done with COBOL.
rosstex
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Correction: I probably meant FORTRAN, thanks!
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