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And yet, if you didn't mind that kind of work, you could have been making a fortune from 1999 to now. You'll be retired before COBOL is no longer used.
by blunte 10y ago
And yet, if you didn't mind that kind of work, you could have been making a fortune from 1999 to now. You'll be retired before COBOL is no longer used.
- crystalPalace 10y agoThere is a large market for maintaining legacy COBOL, SNOBOL, and various esoteric assembly codebases. Additionally APL and its derivatives are not entirely dead.
- protomyth 10y agoSNOBOL should be looked at, if for nothing else, for its string handling (add a brief look at Icon right afterwards). I would have killed to take APL in college, but despite having to program on an IBM 370 mainframe, no classes were offered. I'm still a little ticked.
- lokedhs 10y agoIt's never too late to start playing with APL. I started around the time GNU APL was released (a few years ago), and I'm having fun with it. I also ended up writing the Emacs integration for it. Please give it a try.
- protomyth 10y agoI have over the years played with it, but I was rather annoyed that having to put up with all the disadvantages of using an IBM 370 that we didn't get some advantages.
- ktRolster 10y agoThere's a nice overview of APL here: http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/5b.html http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/5b.html
- zeckalpha 10y agoI've been interested in getting into this market. Can you point me to these jobs?