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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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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I had this conversation with a friend yesterday. I really don't think we'd be in better shape if they had paid someone to rewrite it all in node.js at some point, they'd just have an easier time finding developers to fix it when it broke because it wasn't designed for this.
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That's the crux of the matter. They have a critical system, but they didn't keep anybody around who could take care of it. Doesn't matter what the system is written in
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