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The future of COBOL is now (infoworld.com)
1 points by rudilee 2027 days ago
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The important thing to note is, the COBOL skill shortage isn't as simple as say, a Python skill shortage would be. Learning COBOL itself is easy, but... all of the special-purpose databases and mainframes and stuff are the hard part. It's really an ecosystem problem.