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Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset
- beezle 10y agoIn a time long ago, a place far away, I did some COBOL. Wasn't even on IBM. Fortran too. But it might take more than a time machine to make me COBOL Cowboy.
- greenyoda 10y ago"Experienced COBOL programmers can earn more than $100 an hour when they get called in to patch up glitches, rewrite coding manuals or make new systems work with old." If they're only getting $100/hour as a consulting rate, they aren't really in such high demand - that's roughly what an experienced software developer can make as an employee (assuming they work 40 hour weeks).