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There's COBOL code at least twice, and possibly three times as old, that still runs billion dollar businesses every day, and likely will until you retire. VB h
by wantoncl 4y ago
There's COBOL code at least twice, and possibly three times as old, that still runs billion dollar businesses every day, and likely will until you retire.
VB has its quirks but during its heyday, it was substantially more productive and easier to use than pretty much anything else.
- tinus_hn 4y agoNo it won’t because Cobol programmers are basically impossible to come by today; when I retire they will all be dead. So unless you can somehow convince young talented programmers to abolish 50 years of advancements and go program in an antiquated language again, in a short while there will simply be no option but to finally migrate away.