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My partner does very technical systems hacking on z/OS. They have a huge problem hiring new programmers. His colleagues are all well over 65 and are inevitably
by NelsonMinar 3y ago
My partner does very technical systems hacking on z/OS. They have a huge problem hiring new programmers. His colleagues are all well over 65 and are inevitably retiring (or worse). It seems like a real problem for the future of the platform.
- Melatonic 3y agoLot of people in Taiwan are learning COBOL and mainframe programming specifically for this reason. Surprisingly big (or small, depending on how you look at it) popular of young people learning it.
- pjmlp 3y agoBig offshoring companies like TCS went big with the Y2K bug correction, and handling COBOL development. Sometimes that is how one goes big, by taking care of stuff no one is interested into doing, and when there is enough money in the bank, go after everything else.