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They realized they could wait around for the government to bail them out on this expense too? Either it’s a really easy language to learn or the banks used to
by refactor_master 6y ago
They realized they could wait around for the government to bail them out on this expense too?
Either it’s a really easy language to learn or the banks used to invest much more in teaching it than they do now (= zero).
If COBOL is so domain-specific, why not teach it as such on the job? Why is it the public’s fault for not investing in it?
- rbanffy 6y ago> Either it’s a really easy language to learn or the banks used to invest much more in teaching it than they do now (= zero). Very few companies invest in training these days. They expect schools and colleges to teach some professional skills (this is not what they should be doing) and invest as little as possible in new hires, specially for technical jobs.
- patrickk 6y ago> If COBOL is so domain-specific, why not teach it as such on the job? Why is it the public’s fault for not investing in it? That's what my comment was saying. According to the article, the banks used to pay for their staff to learn COBOL on the job. It's 100% the financial industries fault that they have allowed this situation to arise. Why did that practice stop? I think this is one of the areas where capitalism is slowly failing in recent decades.