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Re:Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat by snaky on Friday September 22, 2017 @06:46PM (#15316601)
There are some wannabe-heroes, but they aren't so widespread.

The vast majority is just being pragmatic. Trendy toys and 'designed and implemented new X' in resume looks so much better for career than 'maintained something old so customers were happy'. Of course, there are some technologies that helps to make pretty good money even being ancient, like COBOL, APL, AS/400 and IMS. But for how long? So it seems rational to move forward instead.

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Re:Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat by dsfyu404ed on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:13PM (#15317153)
That said, if you've got COBOL, Fortran, etc on your resume you're pretty much guaranteed to get asked about it in an interview.
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Re:Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat by snaky on Saturday September 23, 2017 @08:24PM (#15322547)
Maybe discussion on mainframes transaction processing and COBOL features helping to implement it the way we know it thesedays as 'Cloud Functions' or 'AWS Lambda' might be a little bit more fruitful than reversing linked list pointers on a blackboard.
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