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OMG. Until now I didn't realize Cobol is more popular than Haskell and Delphi. I had just read there are ~2.5 Cobol programmers left in the world, who are old l

OMG. Until now I didn't realize Cobol is more popular than Haskell and Delphi. I had just read there are ~2.5 Cobol programmers left in the world, who are old like Gandalf, enjoy ridiculously high salaries and can't retire because nobody learns Cobol any more while the world needs somebody to maintain those legacy systems that still run its economy. While Delphi used to be the PHP of the desktop world until very recently (and could hardly be expected to decline so fast) and Haskell seems to be the computer science lingua franca.

anon73044 7y ago
>The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. It is a leading indicator. The raw data comes from Google Trends. That's the problem, nobody is actively learning Cobol these days and nobody knows how much is running out there in the wild, because none of the big banks or credit companies will actually admit it. You joke but the jobs are still out there, still being posted and companies are still hiring. https://www.wellsfargojobs.com/job/irving/apps-systems-engineer-4-cobol-developer/1251/14783197 https://www.wellsfargojobs.com/job/irving/apps-systems-engin...
- pjmlp 7y ago
  And there are even compilers targeting .NET and Java. https://www.gtsoftware.com/products/netcobol/netcobol-for-net/ https://www.gtsoftware.com/products/netcobol/netcobol-for-ne... https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overview https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv... And naturally cloud deployments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9cYwbDdobc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9cYwbDdobc