Agreed. But those that do know COBOL make BANK maintaining the old financial systems!
Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
futatorius@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoCOBOL is perfectly suitable for financial purposes for which it was designed.
Nobody uses COBOL for greenfield projects, even in the banking and financial sectors. And, as people with COBOL expertise die of old age, it becomes increasingly unmaintainable.
NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
PanArab@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I bet is cheaper to teach it to new programmers than to rewrite old software. Just because a language is old doesn’t mean it is unlearnable or that software written in it needs to be rewritten.