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Whenever COBOL or Fortran is mentioned, it is met with so much criticism. Such an archaic ugly language. OMG why didn't they replace it with C#/JAVA/whatever ye
by nom 6y ago
Whenever COBOL or Fortran is mentioned, it is met with so much criticism. Such an archaic ugly language. OMG why didn't they replace it with C#/JAVA/whatever yet. Who would learn an obsolete language? It's a dead end as a developer.
Well guess what, it most likely will outlive every other language and framework created in the last 10 years by a large margin.
I just wish it would pay better to attract senior developers. The language is easy, but it has to be a real challenge understanding all of the interconnected processes and that requires a lot of experience. Surely there are many who would choose a COBOL job over learning a new framework every 2 years.
- rbanffy 6y agoPlus, if you write COBOL code, chances are it's running on some mainframe, which are the coolest computers you can get, for any amount of money.
- tester34 6y agoWhy you talk first about C#/Java and then language of last decade? Both of those languages are >2 decades old. I think it's very naive to think that COBOL will outlive Java or C#. Their presence is so huge. I bet that even Rust and Go will outlive COBOL, but I'm not so sure about Go.
- nom 6y agoYeah that was worded badly, I didn't want to imply that it will outlive those languages. The thought was more about "it's a dead and obsolete language" uttered by developers that jump from one language/framework to another. Recent stuff will die out and is replaced quickly by design. Java on the other hand has potential to become the next COBOL in the far future.