The company is not able to easily recruit new developers to work on COBOL, the main programming language in use.

公司不能容易地招募新的开发人员来从事COBOL方面的工作，COBOL是目前使用的主要编程语言。

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XML parsers are available in every programming language (even Cobol enjoys strong XML support), so you have no reason not to use them.

每种编程语言都由适用的XML解析器(即使Cobol都有强大的XML支持)，没有理由不使用。

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This same debate went on in the 60's when high-level programming languages like COBOL and FORTRAN started to displace hand-coded assembly as the language of choice.

同样的争论发生在六十年代高级程序语言如cobol和FORTRAN开始取代汇编成为语言所选的时候。

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