#COBOL

@MistyMVD I’ve been thinking about why FORTRAN has been continuous used by engineers for 60 years, while COBOL has become niche, and I have a theory.Engineering problems, as different as

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bigendiansmalls

Sigh.... All fun and games. But here’s the straight truth: the works runs on COBOL.Why don’t you know this? Number of reasons, one is the systems and apps built around

Great article. But the shocking part isn’t that COBOL programmers are still needed, it’s that these states and corporations let them all go, when they still had a huge investment

Arvind Narayanan

This is like the unrealistic movie trope we all chuckle at in which a few badasses in their 70s have to come out of retirement to save the world because

Wanted: People who know half century-old computer language so states can process unemployment claims: there are still 220B lines of COBOL in use today. 43% of banking systems are built

every time you hear about the COBOL programmer shortage please mentally substitute:"We were too cheap to pay for maintenance, so no new programmers learned COBOL." You could also try,"We have

Now that there’s an interest in #COBOL programs, I have to say that COBOL doesn’t deserve the bad reputation it had in the geek community. There are much worse old

Zed A. Shaw, Painter

Prediction:New Jersey won't be able to hire COBOL programmers because the reason they still have COBOL in the first place is because a union controls who works on that system

This is actually a huge problem in California and absolutely not a joke. It’s a life or death situation centered on an ancient programming language. Here’s a thread on why

THREAD: Yesterday, NJ @GovMurphy asked for COBOL programmers, prompting quite a bit of surprise that a supposedly obsolete language was still used. Hold on. Not only is COBOL use widespread,

The governor of New Jersey just put out the call on live TV that he is desperate for Cobol programmers right now. This tweet went viral. I feel like Madonna.

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I just want to point out that the majority of COBOL programmers are in a demographic that many people were absolutely fine with putting at risk less than a month

i sincerely wish more programmers of the web app / web server / commodity unix-y server ilk (aka my people) were good-faith curious about Cobol and mainframes instead of gawking

Matt Osterndorf

so why did COBOL fall out of favorI don't know anything about the relative merits of different programming languages lotta snark in the replies, only @MoonstruckTwolf elaboratingsad!

Ian Coldwater 📦💥

I am a person who specializes in cloud native infrastructure, not a COBOL programmer, but if you're like "lol why don't banks and governments migrate to modern systems?!" I have

If they can't believe a ton of government HR infrastructure still runs on COBOL, wait till the cool Data Science kids find out just how much of their ML, AI,