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I'm a young developer who also happened to work in a bank so I did a lot of Cobol in 2017-2018. Good points of Cobol: - No boilerplate - You could understand
by Volrath89 8y ago
I'm a young developer who also happened to work in a bank so I did a lot of Cobol in 2017-2018.
Good points of Cobol:
- No boilerplate
- You could understand the use case just by reading the code
- Never seen such a fast processing of millions of records (this was done with VSAM files)
But the most important and a real eye-opener for me:
- Any developer can easily learn how to program in Cobol. You don't need superstars 10x programmers and ever changing frameworks and paradigms. There were grandmothers working as developers in the bank. I've actually never seen such a diversity in IT (not only age but also gender diversity). And you know what, that made it a real nice place to work
- kayla210 8y agoI'm also a young developer that works with COBOL, but I work in the insurance sector. The environment you describe is also how it's like here. And I've never worked with such nice and intelligent people! One thing I really love about this environment is you learn a lot about the business area when working with COBOL, since the business logic is so plainly written in many programs. I don't like using the term "self-documenting code," but COBOL is really close to that.