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by dtech 2947 days ago
I highly doubt that. Websites are much more throw-away than the average enterprise backend processing app, even for large apps like Gmail I suspect the churn is orders of magnitudes larger than in their backend systems started in 2004.

COBOL skills remain valuable because they're running hard-to-replace data processing systems at the core of large corporations. Java fills the same role.