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Why can't they just train someone to learn COBOL? Surely there are plenty of young and hungry people out there who deserve a chance.
by anoncoward111 8y ago
Why 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.