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by JVIDEL 4790 days ago
The best-paid freelance programmer I ever knew was a man older than my dad who was the only guy left in the country that could code Cobol for certain kind of industrial equipment.

For the companies that hired him it was cheaper than changing that equipment, and by cheaper I mean the guy was able to buy an Hacienda with what he made coding Cobol, nuff said.