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minus-squaretiredofsametab@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoI doubt it. It’s still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there’s a lot of text manipulation since it’s really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).
minus-squareMajorHavoc@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoYeah. There’s always at least one mission critical Prel script that no one can read.
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I doubt it. It’s still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there’s a lot of text manipulation since it’s really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).
I made good money on EDI.
Yeah. There’s always at least one mission critical Prel script that no one can read.