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Now I know how to reply when someone posts “I have a week with nothing to do. What language should I learn next?” COBOL. Seriously, anyone with some programmin
by gregjor 7y ago
Now I know how to reply when someone posts “I have a week with nothing to do. What language should I learn next?” COBOL.
Seriously, anyone with some programming experience can learn COBOL or any other language in a few weeks. Maybe with so many hip startups for concierge cat sitting closing down more programmers with time on their hands and no paycheck will crack the McCracken book (the one I learned COBOL from ages ago).
- non-entity 7y agoIf i could get hired with a good rate after just learning the COBOL language maybe. Unfortunately, I don't have a mainframe for me to learn the rest of the environment in.
- lboc 7y agoIBM give away free year-long z/OS accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20873531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20873531
- ornornor 7y agoWhat are the real world prospects for cobol developers? I’m seriously asking. I’m tired of running the JavaScript treadmill, I’d much rather invest the time to learn cobol (which I bet doesn’t change everything about how things are done every 6 months) if I can be reasonably sure it comes with a steady amount of work and a good rate. But so far all I’ve seen is people saying “welp others should learn cobol because there aren’t many programmers still in the workforce who know this language and it pays big bucks” but I could never find hard evidence. Where are the job ads? Where are the typical rates?