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I feel like this solution was written by someone who hasn’t built software before. Doing a rewrite for the sake of a rewrite is not a good idea.
by apstats 3y ago
I feel like this solution was written by someone who hasn’t built software before. Doing a rewrite for the sake of a rewrite is not a good idea.
- high_5 3y agoSo... Having no COBOL devs left is a better one? What's the alternative then?
- apstats 3y agoYes - if we need them to people can learn COBOL it's not any harder to learn than many other programming languages.
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- stonogo 3y agoThere are plenty of COBOL devs; they're just not in the American labor market.
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoWould bumping starting salaries for Cobol devs to 150k, resolve it in the US? (I am assuming banks could afford it.)
- stonogo 3y agoNo, since that's not too much higher than starting salaries for Python programming at a medium-sized research institute, and there's no clear career progression for COBOL programmers.