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I believe at least one consulting company in this Indian city is still training new graduates in COBOL and setting them up with dead end careers.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
I believe at least one consulting company in this Indian city is still training new graduates in COBOL and setting them up with dead end careers.
- pjmlp 2y agoCOBOL just had a new release, COBOL 2023 is the most recent standard. Also does objects nowadays. Additionally, given all the AI prompts being used nowadays writing long English texts instead of proper programming, COBOL was actually a language ahead of its time.
- aqueueaqueue 2y agoAh COBOL, Fortran, Perl and PHP.... all chant: "No no.... we're actually modern now guys!!!"
- afiori 2y agoBeing modern has little to do with being used, at least COBOL and PHP have for sure strong footholds in many places