Hadi Partovi on Twitter: "Who would have thought COBOL programmers would be an urgent need alongside masks, ventilators, and vaccines? #CSforGood https://t.co/Mpc7yLd4MX"

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1. Aaron Horn ‏ @HornIT 9 Apr 2020
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  All of us Railroad IT guys that have been paying 60+ year olds $300/hr to add features to our legacy code.
  
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1. Monte Cristo‏ @cristo_monte 9 Apr 2020
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  Call for #COBOLprogrammers ! #OldSchoolComputerScientists #MIT #NYU
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1. Rochester United FC‏ @RUFCWPSL 9 Apr 2020
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  Can I help?
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1. Neil Plotnick‏ @NeilPlotnick 9 Apr 2020
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  Several years ago NASA was looking for Fortran experience. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-engineer/ …
  
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1. coding australia‏ @codingaustralia 9 Apr 2020
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  The backend is still COBOL and FORTRAN just as keyboards are still QWERTY, Ctrl key shortcuts are still efficient and standard rail gauges are still equivalent to Roman chariots. Now if only you Americans could sort out your dates.
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1. 8CP MEMS‏ @7CLMEMS 10 Apr 2020
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  Grace would be proud COBOL is still robust after 60 years!pic.twitter.com/l4tyAcsmBj
  
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1. Harshal S Chhaya‏ @hschhaya 10 Apr 2020
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  Harshal S Chhaya Retweeted Harshal S Chhaya
  
  I am curious if this will increase its popularity. I have a poll open https://twitter.com/hschhaya/status/1248420226770690049?s=21 …https://twitter.com/hschhaya/status/1248420226770690049 …
  
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  Harshal S Chhaya @hschhaya
  
  COBOL is #26 in the TIOBE index for April 2020 Given this week's focus on COBOL's importance in the critical systems that run our world, what's your guess on its rank next month? https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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