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Cobol cabal will take over Australia
From http://www.channelregister.co.uk/201...guage_to_know/
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It's not just Australia. I looked it up some time ago after a friend (a COBOL programmer) said it was still being used a lot, I didn't believe him at first but apparently there's a lot of COBOL code out there. "Billions and billions" of lines as Sagan would say
I always have to think of the Dijkstra quote: "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.".
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Somehow, I rather think that Java, JavaScript, and the mainstream .NET languages are rather the oldest younger monkies seem to be proficient in, there's an evilly common open source one in that mix that I will not foul this forum with the name of.
For some reason, I'm starting to feel strange for being accustomed to Perl and C :-/.
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This made me think of an old friend of mine. I Google'd and found him on LinkedIn. There he lists that he still works for the same bank as a COBOL programmer/analyst. When he was going to school for this, in the early '80s, I would make fun of him for taking COBOL cause it was so antiquated.
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Bet he makes more than anyone else on this forum.
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