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If you never knew anything but COBOL you'd probably love programming it. Knowledge of better techniques can be seriously damaging to your career. I suffered so
by incompatible 9y ago
If you never knew anything but COBOL you'd probably love programming it. Knowledge of better techniques can be seriously damaging to your career.
I suffered some damage from not wanting to touch Windows (3.1) after discovering Linux in the early 1990s. Today, most jobs advertisements still look toxic.
- phoe-krk 9y agoI can relate. At my workplace, I think I'm the only person on the whole site who uses Linux as their main OS in place of Windows. It has its obvious downsides, since company tools are designed to work on Windows and everything else is a bigger or smaller hack, but given my general comfort of working on top of Linux, I think I'm still better off feeling the pain of using a less supported but more comfortable OS.
- wglb 9y agoAs a Fortran and assembly language programmer, I developed a strong philosophical distaste of COBOL and the environment it thrived in. Then, my first consulting gig used RPG-III. Then, cobol was installed, and it was wonderful.