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Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You
- andrewshadura 8y agoPaywalled article? No thanks.
- anoncoward111 8y agoWhy can't they just train someone to learn COBOL? Surely there are plenty of young and hungry people out there who deserve a chance.
- rootsudo 8y agoThe same reason why you wouldn't train on some antiquated way of doing something. Once the work is done, what other choices do you have left? It's a silo, where everyone is dying off daily.
- anoncoward111 8y agoI will do cobol for $10 an hour if it was stable for a year or two
- tsukikage 8y agoPeople have kept claiming it's dead for a few decades now, yet articles like this one keep popping up. It's niche, sure, but given past experience I suspect it'll be around for a while yet.
- cafard 8y agoI suspect that the youngest React whiz on HN will be able, when his day comes, to find COBOL coders as pallbearers. I have no particular desire to code in COBOL, though I have peered at some and debugged a bit of it. Still, it's indoor worker with no heavy lifting.
- denzil_correa 8y agoNon-paywalled article : https://outline.com/ZC4jn8 https://outline.com/ZC4jn8
- jordiburgos 8y agoI learnt COBOL in the Computer Science technical school (before college, FP in Spain). It is an easy language very focused. Even that it has lots of constraints like number of spaces, putting some magic characters in specific columns. The most difficult thing is to have somewhere to execute it, nobody has mainframes at home :)