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https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/g5zvpa/psa_dont_try_to_learn_cobol/fo7453r/ https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/g5zvpa/ps... -

by jjp 4y ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/g5zvpa/psa_dont_try_to_learn_cobol/fo7453r/ https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/g5zvpa/ps... - is probably the most succinct from that thread. Your challenge isn't just learning Cobol - that's relatively simple. It's all the surrounding infrastructure that is also very different - different OS, different file system, different database, front-end is 80x24 green and then you get into source control, build and devops which will all be different.

pbhjpbhj 4y ago
Either side of the millennium my job involved daily use of a terminal interface (on WinNT IIRC) to a green-screen, to me it was just like using pico (which was supersedes by nano) through konsole. But I was just a user, and grew up with monochrome VDUs. Can you run an AS400 under emulation?? Wouldn't you be developing under a regular IDE with modern tooling [, testing under emulation?] and then transferring to production just like you might with any other system? On the question of whether it's worth it financially, presumably demand will increase--are people retiring faster than the systems they support or vice versa?