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[–] bulwark 28 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I wouldn't be mad about it, I hear there's big bucks in the arcane languages.

[–] noerdman@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)
[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's been a while since I was told this, so not sure how true it still is, but there a was a niche but lucrative market for people who could maintain stuff in Fortran, COBOL and the like.

Because there were some critical antediluvian pieces of software in banking, big businesses, etc that some companies were terrified of having to replace one day.

I'd expect that by now most would have migrated to more common languages, but I don't really know.

[–] yggdar 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in IT in the financial industry. There is indeed still a ton of COBOL around.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

I guess some things never change, quite literally.

I've only worked for a bank for a few months, and it was on a new service project, so no idea what made the old finance workflows tick. For all I know it was the same there.

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