I went from COBOL to Java to Groovy/Grails. I may just go back to COBOL. I fixed several problems last week on a COBOL programmer.
ALL programmers in India learn COBOL. There is no shortage of COBOL programmers.
There is a shortage of people who want to do COBOL.
It’s seen as a resume-killer by Millenials. Fools.
My IT department is 95% Indian. Not one of them works with COBOL. They do not want to go near a COBOL application. I am in the process of converting all COBOL programs to Oracle PL/SQL. They have Linux here and I have workd on shell scripts as well. COBOL - and IBM JCL - is/was a good foundation.
Riiiight....
When I was in college, we had a great teacher in the computer science field.
He said, “With Assembler you tell the computer what to do. With Fortran you ask it to do things. With COBOL you have to get on your knees and beg.”
I would have to agree, I could revert to COBOL any time but I’m not interested in working for a company so short sighted not to have upgraded their systems before now.
Are they still EBCDIC? My Yellow card is probably brown now.