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There are some wannabe-heroes, but they aren't so widespread. The vast majority is just being pragmatic. Trendy toys and 'designed and implemented new X' in re
by snaky 9y ago
There are some wannabe-heroes, but they aren't so widespread.
The vast majority is just being pragmatic. Trendy toys and 'designed and implemented new X' in resume looks so much better for career than 'maintained something old so customers were happy'. Of course, there are some technologies that helps to make pretty good money even being ancient, like COBOL, APL, AS/400 and IMS. But for how long? So it seems rational to move forward instead.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoThat said, if you've got COBOL, Fortran, etc on your resume you're pretty much guaranteed to get asked about it in an interview.
- snaky 9y agoMaybe discussion on mainframes transaction processing and COBOL features helping to implement it the way we know it thesedays as 'Cloud Functions' or 'AWS Lambda' might be a little bit more fruitful than reversing linked list pointers on a blackboard.