4 ms·
Because COBOL is not difficult to learn, in fact it was designed so that 'businesspeople' could easily learn it (Which didn't happen). COBOL is merely undesira
by anonylizard 4y ago
Because COBOL is not difficult to learn, in fact it was designed so that 'businesspeople' could easily learn it (Which didn't happen).
COBOL is merely undesirable from a long term career perspective.
The aggregate demand is also very small.
Therefore India's big IT shops can simply train some fresh grads to learn COBOL. Those grads don't care about working on the latest tech, they just want a well paid and stable job.
This puts a hard ceiling on the wages of COBOL programmers.
- raverbashing 4y agoYeah. One of the biggest "myths" around computing is that non-technical people will want to do any form of coding (and yes, I'm talking about BDD as well) The only development environment they know (barely) is Excel
- zozbot234 4y agoCOBOL may not be all that difficult to learn, but the proprietary systems and environments that a legacy COBOL program will be designed to interact with are a different story. These are often extremely obscure.