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Actually I would argue than in the niche of batch record processing on mainframes COBOL still very technically competitive. Unfortunately, unlike Perl, batch r
by jbarham 16y ago
Actually I would argue than in the niche of batch record processing on mainframes COBOL still very technically competitive. Unfortunately, unlike Perl, batch record processing on mainframes is essentially the only niche COBOL is suited for...
- ahi 16y agoPerl is competitive in more areas, but many of them are not traditionally high paying or high status areas for programmers, e.g. sysadministration or data munging. Combine an aging Perl workforce with lower paying positions and you end up with unfilled positions. Banks are willing to pay good money to either train someone or hire an experienced engineer to work on their mainframe.
- gaius 16y agoIf you call data munging "ETL" it becomes well-paid again.
- masterponomo 16y agoCOBOL is used quite heavily for all kinds of online apps using messaging (MQSeries and others), any big database you care to name, TCP/IP, and interfacing nicely with Java (among other languages). The apps are only as poor as the programmers who write them--COBOL is not inherently limiting, and is in no way stuck in a batch record niche.
- blasdel 16y agoIt even has Macros: http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/03/kenny-and-firing-squad-episode-ii-cobol.html http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/03/kenny-and-firing-s...