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re: Any of you know COBOL?
Posted on 4/8/20 at 4:43 pm to FearlessFreep
Posted on 4/8/20 at 4:43 pm to FearlessFreep
Some state of LA agencies transitioned off of COBOL mainframes over a period of years in the 2000s.
Not because it didn’t work but because trying to get new developers to work on it was a massive pain in the arse. No college in the state taught it anymore so you pretty much had to put together a boot camp for any new employee to learn it.
The funny / sad part is that there was a huge push for COBOL programmers in the 90s during the Y2K push. Apparently a lot of these organizations fixed their two-digit year problem but didn’t transition their shite off COBOL and onto a system written in a more commonly used language.
Not because it didn’t work but because trying to get new developers to work on it was a massive pain in the arse. No college in the state taught it anymore so you pretty much had to put together a boot camp for any new employee to learn it.
The funny / sad part is that there was a huge push for COBOL programmers in the 90s during the Y2K push. Apparently a lot of these organizations fixed their two-digit year problem but didn’t transition their shite off COBOL and onto a system written in a more commonly used language.
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Posted on 4/8/20 at 4:50 pm to teke184
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Apparently a lot of these organizations fixed their two-digit year problem but didn’t transition their shite off COBOL and onto a system written in a more commonly used language.
i personally know several COBOL programmer millionaires.
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