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Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer by ams6110 on Thursday July 14, 2016 @07:26PM (#12097960)
2-3 years? COBOL is not that difficult.

My first job out of school, at a big consulting firm, and they were teaching new college graduates COBOL in a 6-week bootcamp. And most of them had taken few or no programming courses in school.

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Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer by unexistance on Thursday July 14, 2016 @09:33PM (#12098445)
yes language are NOT difficult, it's the same concept everywhere (conditions / loop / boolean logic / etc)

BUT the hard part was, is and will always be domain knowledge, with special cases here & there, obscure logic, miscommunication between expert & developer and others

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