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Why? If the codebase is mature and there are no glaring problems, why not hire COBOL programmers at a modest premium? COBOL still works. If COBOL programmers w
by sliverstorm 11y ago
Why? If the codebase is mature and there are no glaring problems, why not hire COBOL programmers at a modest premium? COBOL still works.
If COBOL programmers were gone, never to come back, they would have to port- but the market worked its magic.
- cgh 11y agoExactly. I'm not a Cobol programmer but I did learn it in school. From this limited experience and from speaking to some older guys who actually do it for a living, there's probably no language out there that's better at what Cobol is all about: report generation. Not to mention decimal arithmetic.
- hga 11y agoYeah, I did 1 week of it in the summer of 1978 and for what it's good at, it was slick. Found myself missing the decimal arithmetic stuff when I was doing C on early UNIX(TM) systems in the '80s.