Trick question, a televised urgent plea for COBOL developers could be any year between 1959 and 9999https://twitter.com/zarawesome/status/1246518788759134210 …
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There's a joke whose punchline is "Well we're coming up to the Y10K problem and it said on your cryogenic unit that you know COBOL", I'll let you reverse-engineer how it goes
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That troubling possibility that leaving your system to run unattended for years at a time, and placing an urgent public call for COBOL developers only when it breaks, may be more cost-effective than keeping a COBOL developer on staff or migrating to something modern
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Six weeks later the emergency COBOL developer has saved your bacon and gone back into retirement. Thus solving the problem once and for all
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To be clear, I don't want to disparage COBOL. I know barely anything about it as a language. It being old is not a problem. The problem is the diminishing number of available programmers
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C is pushing fifty and nobody complains about that Haha just kidding I am 100% here to disparage C, garbage programming language
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