I mean... they're right. It's the best way to learn COBOL. Not entirely sure why you'd want to learn COBOL in 2024 but power to ya.
Why?
Well, there are quite a lot of rumors and stigma surrounding COBOL. This intrigued me to find out more about this language, which is best done with some sort of project, in my opinion. You heard right - I had no prior COBOL experience going into this.
I mean... they're right. It's the best way to learn COBOL. Not entirely sure why you'd want to learn COBOL in 2024 but power to ya.
Well, I once heard that since COBOL programmers were a dying species (literally), you could find some high-paying jobs at e.g. banks that still have some “onion layer” type of system and thus...
Well, I once heard that since COBOL programmers were a dying species (literally), you could find some high-paying jobs at e.g. banks that still have some “onion layer” type of system and thus really, really need programmers for maintenance/new features.
Not sure how credible or realistic that claim was in practice, though.
My best friend's dad was a Fortran/COBOL programmer that came out of retirement to make some pretty insane money helping rewrite old legacy mainframe software for several Canadian banks leading up...
My best friend's dad was a Fortran/COBOL programmer that came out of retirement to make some pretty insane money helping rewrite old legacy mainframe software for several Canadian banks leading up to Y2K. I doubt that kind of money is the standard for COBOL devs these days, but there appears to still be a decent amount of COBOL dev job listings on LinkedIn (including at several banks): https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/cobol-jobs/
I did COBOL in college in the late 80s, and my first jobs were all COBOL. Still programming in it today. Only another 10 years to go, come on COBOL, you can do it!
I did COBOL in college in the late 80s, and my first jobs were all COBOL. Still programming in it today. Only another 10 years to go, come on COBOL, you can do it!
What an impressively unnecessary project. Got a good chuckle out of me.
I mean... they're right. It's the best way to learn COBOL. Not entirely sure why you'd want to learn COBOL in 2024 but power to ya.
Well, I once heard that since COBOL programmers were a dying species (literally), you could find some high-paying jobs at e.g. banks that still have some “onion layer” type of system and thus really, really need programmers for maintenance/new features.
Not sure how credible or realistic that claim was in practice, though.
My best friend's dad was a Fortran/COBOL programmer that came out of retirement to make some pretty insane money helping rewrite old legacy mainframe software for several Canadian banks leading up to Y2K. I doubt that kind of money is the standard for COBOL devs these days, but there appears to still be a decent amount of COBOL dev job listings on LinkedIn (including at several banks): https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/cobol-jobs/
Oh yeah, I think I heard that in school too. Though I've never seen a COBOL posting in my life.
I did COBOL in college in the late 80s, and my first jobs were all COBOL. Still programming in it today. Only another 10 years to go, come on COBOL, you can do it!