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The people who still use Pascal make so much money using Pascal that this question is literally above all of our paygrades.

• bdcravens 4y ago
  True of most older languages that have fallen out of favor.
  • pluc 4y ago
    And it's not obscure systems powering typewriters in a dimly lit basement! We're talking banks, grocery stores, warehouses. Anything that was made 40+ years ago and was never re-engineered either because they couldn't or wouldn't. The price to upgrade is higher than the price to maintain so why bother? Not everyone cares about the latest trends. Edit: I said 20+ years initially.. but that's 2003 now :( So 20+ years from 20 years ago.
  • eatonphil 4y ago
    This is a mostly inaccurate trope from every time I've gone looking. If you look at the median and spread of salaries for Cobol developers or mainframes or Fortran or whatnot, it is way below the medians and spread for salaries of frontend and backend developers. Now possibly there are non-public markets where you can hire devs at crazy salaries but us not being able to find them also indicates the relative scarcity. So overall no I don't think finding work in old-school tech will pay better or even have much better work-life balance.
    • mistadobalina 4y ago
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