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"There will be lots of postmortems and one of them on our list will be: how did we get here when we literally need COBOL programmers."
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Electronics Weekly, December 1960:

"Cobol is thought to be the most versatile common language developed so far. It includes some twenty verbs in its vocabulary, such as read, display, etc." electronicsweekly.com/blogs/manneris…
I can't even...

"COBOL is at the heart of a modernization strategy. ...92 percent of respondents felt as though their organization’s COBOL applications are strategic." it.toolbox.com/blogs/trevored…
"For Microsoft, 1978 begins with the announcement of the Microsoft COBOL-80, which conforms to the 1974 ANSI standards for 8080, Z80, and 8085 microprocessor systems." channel9.msdn.com/Series/History…
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"I describe what I do as 'optimization' - a wonky way of saying I try to make sure our limited resources help as many people as possible. I spend a lot of time thinking, analyzing data, and talking to experts to judge whether we can make a difference." BG gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gat…
"Optimization" is about achieving the highest return possible on the ~$5B spent each year:

"$10B to help provide vaccines, drugs, bed nets and other supplies in developing countries created an estimated $200 billion in social and economic benefits." google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.…
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"Our assumption has to be, because we are seeing in some southern hemisphere places like Australia, quite a bit of infection, that it's not dramatically seasonal and that it's just gotten started slower in Africa" Bill Gates in ft.com/content/13ddac…
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