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submitted 2 years ago by Kohji@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

COBOL is not obsolete?

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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 28 points 2 years ago

problem is that the original COBOL programmers were expecting their stuff to be replaced within a decade, they never realized that companies would never pay to replace something if it was still (barely) functional after years of neglect – now those programs have become the backbone of their company and they’re having to shell out because it takes a special breed to learn COBOL in the day of C, C++, C#, Elixir, Nim, Crystal, JavaScript, Lua, GDScript, Dart, Swift, Kotlin, Clojure, …, …, …

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Special breed

If it pays enough Ill learn the shit out of cobol

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

AFAIK it doesn't, but at least you have a secure job for the rest of your working days.

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