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COVID-19 Response: New Jersey Urgently Needs COBOL Programmers
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:12 pm
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New Jersey desperately needs COBOL Programmers. (Yes, You Read That Correctly)
That’s what the State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, apparently meant today, when he said at a press conference that the State needed volunteers who with “Cobalt” computer skills to help fix 40-year-old-plus unemployment insurance systems that are currently overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19-related job losses.
COBOL, for those who are unfamiliar, is a computer language that is over 60 years old, and was once the staple of software development across industry and government. By the late 1980s, however, it had become sufficiently obsolete that many universities did not even include it in their computer science curricula. In fact, while there are certainly are COBOL systems still in use today, relatively few software developers under the age of 50 have ever seen, never mind written, even one line of COBOL. It is not surprising that even New Jersey’s 62-year old governor, who was an executive at Goldman Sachs for decades, had apparently not heard its name recently enough to remember it correctly.
COBOL’s heyday in the 1970s means that the majority of COBOL experts in America are likely well over 60 years old – making them significantly at risk for death or danger by COVID-19 – and probably a bit rusty at their former craft; many of them have likely not developed in COBOL since long before many of the readers of this article were born.
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Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:15 pm to rickgrimes
Why do we as a people allow our governments to be such a joke. They get frick tons of tax dollars but it’s just bloated processes and outdated crap that no one ever repairs or replaces while all the politicians and department heads line their pockets
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:17 pm to rickgrimes
And they want people to volunteer to fix it? How about they hire someone?
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:17 pm to Eighteen
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Why do we as a people allow our governments to be such a joke. They get frick tons of tax dollars but it’s just bloated processes and outdated crap that no one ever repairs or replaces while all the politicians and department heads line their pockets
Because a large portion of our population pays nothing, takes a lot, and doesn't give a shite about criminal activity. And they all vote.
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 11:18 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:19 pm to rickgrimes
There are hobbiest programmers that deal in COBOL and older programming languages. I've seen groups dedicated to rebuilding and programming computers built in the 1960's, they won't have a problem finding someone. I hope they ask a hell of a contract fee though.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:19 pm to rickgrimes
I believe LSU still uses COBOL code to run their software
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:21 pm to rickgrimes
I averaged some grades via hyperthermic nal
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:22 pm to PipelineBaw
Id e okra see
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 11:23 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:26 pm to rondo
A lot of big banks use cobol. Its a fairly secure language since no one uses it anymore. Expert cobol programmers can make bank anywhere in the country.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:30 pm to rickgrimes
I hate articles like this. Banks, Governments, and Airlines all still use it. Just because it’s “old” doesn’t mean it’s obsolete.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:36 pm to Golfer
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I hate articles like this. Banks, Governments, and Airlines all still use it. Just because it’s “old” doesn’t mean it’s obsolete.
Yep. Still a great option for business procedural language.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:48 pm to rickgrimes
UI uses DB2. Its ancient
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:01 am to Golfer
quote:It's not obsolete because it's old. It's obsolete because few people know/learn it anymore. The number of COBOL programmers in the world will likely never grow, only shrink. Which means that writing any NEW code in COBOL is a poor financial decision, and maintaining OLD COBOL will become more and more expensive each year.
I hate articles like this. Banks, Governments, and Airlines all still use it. Just because it’s “old” doesn’t mean it’s obsolete.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:06 am to Floating Change Up
quote:Really? You would choose COBOL today knowing that it's expensive to dev and will only become more so?
Yep. Still a great option for business procedural language.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:06 am to rickgrimes
I texted my parents and they said they learned Fortran over COBOL, they can’t help.
Is that effectively an Ok boomer?
Is that effectively an Ok boomer?
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:09 am to rickgrimes
How the hell does a state like New Jersey have such an antiquated system when state software is such a lucrative market for graft?
You'd think someone would have gotten some contract off a kickback to revitalize the system every decade or so. Even the Nagin administration had those shenanigans.
You'd think someone would have gotten some contract off a kickback to revitalize the system every decade or so. Even the Nagin administration had those shenanigans.
This post was edited on 4/6/20 at 12:10 am
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