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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (COBOL History lesson) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 days ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maintaining old code is the real drawback. Surely nobody finds that fun.

COBOL is just the turd on the shit cake.

[–] bradboimler@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pay me to do it remotely and I'll jump at the chance

[–] theRealBassist@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Friend of mine maintains COBOL for an insurance company. He lives on the opposite side of the country from his business, and is only on call one weekend a month.

Dude got hired before he even graduated, getting paid 70k, and gets to live wherever he wants.

I would kill for that lol

[–] naonintendois@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

70k is likely way underpaid for dealing with COBOL. I've heard of people making 200k for being on-call