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The 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, wher
by rootsudo 8y ago
The 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.