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kjs3 on March 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: COBOL: Thinking about it wrong

book a seat on an airplane

The web site might be JS, but actually booking the seat is in all likelihood going through PARS/IPARS. Which runs on an IBM mainframe.

3pt14159 on March 6, 2023 [–]

Ultimately, maybe. But there's a whole lot a middleman hawkin' Ruby on Rails out there.

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