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Become an expert on the Cobol/PL1 of 2050, maybe?

• oblio 8y ago
  > Cobol/PL1 of 2050 It's already here and it's called Java :)
  • struppi 8y ago
    And probably als JavaScript.
    • dtech 8y ago
      I highly doubt that. Websites are much more throw-away than the average enterprise backend processing app, even for large apps like Gmail I suspect the churn is orders of magnitudes larger than in their backend systems started in 2004. COBOL skills remain valuable because they're running hard-to-replace data processing systems at the core of large corporations. Java fills the same role.
  • berbec 8y ago
    Cobol is the new Cobol https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-way-down/ https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-wa...
  • Traubenfuchs 8y ago
    In Austria, not even Javascript can beat Java (33% more job openings!). At least in Europe, Java will continue to rule supreme in the foreseeable future. I am currently part of a big project involving >300 people that will lead to 50 - 100 Spring Boot microservices that will run at least 10 years...