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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (24 children)

Fr tho what happens when all the COBOL programmers die off?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

New folks are learning it. Obviously not in droves, and obviously there is a lot of legacy knowledge, but new people are def training on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

COBOL is not hard to learn. But it takes years to develop the muscles in your fingers to the point where you can write a subroutine in a single session.

[–] emergencybird 4 points 4 months ago

I took courses in uni for COBOL and you're right, the language itself isn't difficult, it's honestly a lot like writing plain Englisch but making sure your JCL was correct, checking I think it was the spool in order to make sure your jobs were working correctly, reading memory dumps, it was a ride. I love mainframe but it feels like all jobs mainframe ask for 5+ years experience

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