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COBOL changes very slowly, once in a decade or two. Python does not offer support of a release for more than 3 years and a half [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python


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yieldcrv10/01/2024

But a compute instance or bare metal computer that never needs a new release wont have to deal with that in python either

Its only new builds on someone else’s computer that have this modern issue

0cf8612b2e1e10/01/2024

I could believe there are legacy installations happily humming away on Python 2.7 without issue.

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