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Re:Banks should let COBOL die by nickpsecurity on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:26AM (#14203753)
"But as far as training people to handle COBOL, well, that's simple. Look at vocational schools of years past. Why can't you train a random person just how to do COBOL? "

You can. Our local, community college ties its classes to what industry in the area wants. It has classes on COBOL, RPG, and so on. That's because there's quite a bit of it out here in big companies.

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Re:Banks should let COBOL die by bluedino on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:28PM (#14204482)
Learning cobol (or any language) isn't the hard part - its understanding a massive legacy codebase and business practices that's the hard part.
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Re:Banks should let COBOL die by nickpsecurity on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:51PM (#14205292)
Yep.
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