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I hope you are aware that 50 year olds started working 1990 to 1995 or even later, when there was a lot more than just COBOL going on. In fact, a 50 year old i
by JJMcJ 6y ago
I hope you are aware that 50 year olds started working 1990 to 1995 or even later, when there was a lot more than just COBOL going on.
In fact, a 50 year old is more likely to have caught the rise of desktop GUIs and of Linux than have spent a career doing COBOL.
- k__ 6y agoI know. It was a joke that targeted the argument: "You know that old tech is still in use? Look at all the COBOL used in industry XYZ."
- PostThisTooFast 6y agoAt that time, COBOL was still huge in big-ass manufacturing systems, such as those in aerospace & defense. In the early 1990s, Accenture (then Andersen Consulting), put every incoming employee through six weeks of on-campus programming training that was taught entirely in COBOL. It was old-school even then. I was also amused to note that all of the daily-announcement monitors in the hallways of their training facility were being driven by an Atari 800. Yep, well into the '90s.