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There is a large market for maintaining legacy COBOL, SNOBOL, and various esoteric assembly codebases. Additionally APL and its derivatives are not entirely dea

There 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 ago
SNOBOL 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 ago
  It'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 ago
    I 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 ago
  There's a nice overview of APL here: http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/5b.html http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/5b.html
zeckalpha 10y ago
I've been interested in getting into this market. Can you point me to these jobs?