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21. What a great way to learn how and how not to code....doing maintenance

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 18, 2020, 01:29 PM

Nov 2020

I began my career doing maintenance on legacy code. You quickly form opinions on the best way to do something and you learn to value simplicity of design. I agree, it shouldn't be difficult for an experienced developer to learn Cobol. The problem is there's always something sexier to work on, using the language du jour.

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Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language [View all] quaint Apr 2020 OP

Didn't we go through this in 1999? So, after 20 years NOW they're upgrading? TreasonousBastard Apr 2020 #1

Y2K didn't eliminate cobol Midnightwalk Apr 2020 #5

Now I vaguely remember that quick and dirty fix... TreasonousBastard Apr 2020 #16

Oh one more thought Midnightwalk Apr 2020 #17

The problem was never really COBOL. SouthernLiberal Aug 2023 #25

I've heard that before. There are a large Phoenix61 Apr 2020 #2

I took a COBOL course quite a few decades ago. Can't see how the new guys couldn't pick it right up. Girard442 Apr 2020 #3

What a great way to learn how and how not to code....doing maintenance dubious Nov 2020 #21

may I assume this is what you get when you starve government? rurallib Apr 2020 #4

When I began my career in IT, we used to make fun of COBOL as an old geezer's language DBoon Apr 2020 #6

We called it DP in '68. quaint Apr 2020 #7

It was called MIS when I started DBoon Apr 2020 #11

COBOL lilymidnite Apr 2020 #8

Especially as a volunteer! quaint Apr 2020 #9

Should they be familiar with MVS JCL as well? DBoon Apr 2020 #10

most people don't use command line shells Midnightwalk Apr 2020 #18

There are thousands of us COBOL programmers. To clarify, COBOL sinkingfeeling Apr 2020 #12

Volunteers? Is the gov looking to get people to fix stuff for free? JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2020 #13

The C language was developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972. LastDemocratInSC Apr 2020 #14

Someday tazkcmo Apr 2020 #15

Sort of like the medieval help desk. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2022 #24

I got my Computer Programmer/Analyst Associate of Science 2 Year Degree back in Sloumeau Apr 2020 #19

Powerful multidimensional Arrays quaint Apr 2020 #20

COBOL still runs many mission-critical mainframes SorellaLaBefana Nov 2022 #22

Thanks for all of this. quaint Nov 2022 #23

I was let go a long time ago SouthernLiberal Aug 2023 #26