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Re:Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, ... by oblio on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:49AM (#17179590)
> Cobol/PL1 of 2050

It's already here and it's called Java :)

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Re:Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, ... by Traubenfuchs on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @11:49AM (#17180220)
In Austria, not even Javascript can beat Java (33% more job openings!). At least in Europe, Java will continue to rule supreme in the foreseeable future. I am currently part of a big project involving >300 people that will lead to 50 - 100 Spring Boot microservices that will run at least 10 years...
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Re:Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, ... by berbec on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:53AM (#17179642)
Cobol is the new Cobol

https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-wa...

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Re:Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, ... by struppi on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:56AM (#17179665)
And probably als JavaScript.
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Re:Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, ... by dtech on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:22PM (#17180548)
I highly doubt that. Websites are much more throw-away than the average enterprise backend processing app, even for large apps like Gmail I suspect the churn is orders of magnitudes larger than in their backend systems started in 2004.

COBOL skills remain valuable because they're running hard-to-replace data processing systems at the core of large corporations. Java fills the same role.

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