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Big Ideas 2024: The Rise of the Developer as a Buyer in Financial Services with Angela Strange
- ▶ 9:17 unnamed speaker I mean, I think something that you mentioned in your talk that we referenced at the beginning is that 40% of bank code is still in COBOL, which is pretty legacy. 6 times in the scene
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
- ▶ 2:01 Angela Strange And it actually wasn't until the 19 sixties, with the advent of the mainframe, COBOL, that software came in.
- ▶ 10:52 Angela Strange 40% of bank's code is in COBOL. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:11 Angela Strange Um, all sorts of other payment types that were previously only accessible, COBOL on mainframes, that helped discover 1600 edge cases that the community was able to write test cases against and fix and harden and benefit the library for all.
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 26:00 Steven Sinofsky You know, like, you really, you know, until you've really met with, like, a big bank or a big insurance company telling you about their COBOL. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 8:55 Marc Andreessen And she said, well, you need to understand, you know, these are thirty-year-old computers running COBOL, 2 times in the scene
When Biology Moves to Engineering
- ▶ 2:51 Vijay Pande Ok, but then what happens is that the year 2000 starts coming up on us, and we've got all this old COBOL code.
- ▶ 10:47 Vijay Pande And then, you know, in the Y two K technical debt analogy, we can go through the COBOL code and figure things out.