One of the most cheerful people I met was a guy on the commuter train about ten years ago poring over a greenbar fanfold[1] listing of COBOL code used in a gas

One of the most cheerful people I met was a guy on the commuter train about ten years ago poring over a greenbar fanfold[1] listing of COBOL code used in a gas station point-of-sale backend. I asked him about it, and he enthusiastically told me about what he was working on and how a problem had developed over night that he was going in to work on. It made me realize that software development doesn't have to be bleeding-edge to be interesting. Indeed, I thought the stability of an established COBOL ecosystem might be refreshing. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery