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    Brian Roemmele‏ @BrianRoemmele 9 Jun 2019
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    I reluctantly learned COBOL in the 1980s building interfaces for credit card terminals. 80% of US banking infrastructure is still built on COBOL. There are ~8000 job positions to each programmer. I spend spare time fixing banking code from the 1970s as a contract programmer.pic.twitter.com/qyEwCmFE0O

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      2. Miles Montes‏ @MilesNextDoor 9 Jun 2019
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        I can confirm this is absolutely true

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      3. Brian Roemmele‏ @BrianRoemmele 9 Jun 2019
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        Chris, thank you!

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      2. Dickey Singh‏ @DickeySingh 9 Jun 2019
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        I took one COBOL class in undergrad because there were fewer students, but, switched to C the same day. For some reason I remember it written all in CAPS with mind-numbing verbosity. BEGIN SECTION BEGIN PARAGRAPH END PARAGRAPH END SECTION

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      3. Brian Roemmele‏ @BrianRoemmele 9 Jun 2019
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        One old timer COBOL programmer once told me he had to take a sip of coffee every time he used a reserved word. We met at a Starbucks to talk, it was 8pm.

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      2. Chris Stamper‏ @cdstamper 9 Jun 2019
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        I reluctantly learned COBOL as a child in the late 90s - our small town public library had only the oldest programming books, and I didn't have the background for Lisp. I never used it.

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      3. Brian Roemmele‏ @BrianRoemmele 9 Jun 2019
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        Chris, I hear ya. Turns out you can moonlight for about $500 per hour in some cases. Good times.

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      2. Brian Roemmele‏ @BrianRoemmele 9 Jun 2019
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        Victor, indeed. It is why I circled it. Found it hidden in COBOL code written in 2017. Fun times.

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      2. Nick Walker‏ @nw3 9 Jun 2019
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        Amazing. You can learn COBOL in high school and pay your computer science tuition with the proceeds.

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      3. Brian Roemmele‏ @BrianRoemmele 9 Jun 2019
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        Nick, indeed. I would go on to say you would likely never leave COBOL as it will pay 5x-10x more than a typical programming job and you will have a pick of where you work and when you work.

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