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Why not? COBOL has great job security.
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
Why not? COBOL has great job security.
- nvm0n2 3y agoI'm told COBOL itself doesn't actually. It's not hard to learn and lots of cheap workers in India will do it for you. The job security is knowing the mainframe tech stack in general, and the specific ways it's used in specific institutions that don't have good internal docs.
- pjmlp 3y agoAnd keeps being updated to modern tooling and paradigms. https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overview https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv... COBOL 2023 - https://www.iso.org/standard/74527.html https://www.iso.org/standard/74527.html