[dirtboy]

There is still a boatload of COBOL code out there, especially in the banking industry, and the old programmers are retiring and younger ones have no idea how to code in such an environment

[Redwood71]

Cobal is still the system used by many government systems over C++ and Visual Basics.

I’ll be surprised if they don’t fill the slots with H1b visa holders from, India. They’ll have guaranteed employment.

rwood

[Mr Fuji]

My old job still has plenty of COBOL code, I think on an AS400 system. The two remaining COBOL programmers right before I left told me that for the past 15 years they have tried to get the company to move away from it. I asked why they can’t get rid of it and he replied that Boomer department directors (no offense Freepers) refused to abandon what they are used to. They told me the code was originally donated to my old company back in the late 1980’s and they kept it going over the years. Well, one of the programmers retired in 2018 and the other is in his mid-60’s and told me recently he’s retiring within a couple of years.

[shanover]

All of the fidiot news people can do coding when their news rags flame out.

[higgmeister]

My Dad retired around 1973 as a Senior Systems Analyst for General Electric. He knew COBOL FORTRAN and of course Assembly language to be able to debug a crash. Dad worked in Huntsville on the inventory program of the Saturn V Rocket until GE lost the contract to Honeywell. It was the largest programming effort at that time.

LOL   I have only dabbled with script languages to control electronics testing equipment.

[Dr. Sivana]

and the old programmers are retiring and younger ones have no idea how to code in such an environment

Plenty of the young ones will be just fine with it. Maybe not someone who makes web pages, but anyone who works with Java, mainframes, and certainly those who work at the low-level stuff (compilers, etc.). Sheesh, NJ ... you had 20 years since the last COBOL crisis to convert to something newer.

[GingisK]

I’m an old fart; however, I prefer death to COBOL. I did think the IBM 360/370s were things of beauty.