New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components

Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by rodgerd on Thursday November 29, 2018 @04:33PM (#18564247)

You laugh, but depending on the actual Cobol support (e.g. whether it also supports a decent amount of CICS) it could make it easy to port a bunch of functions that are locked away on zOS.

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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by barbecue_sauce on Thursday November 29, 2018 @05:27PM (#18564728)

I was actually serious.

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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by freedomben on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:43PM (#18565268)

That might be really smart. Cobol is still in wide use, and somebody needs to replace the aging Cobol community. I bet salaries will sky rocket

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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by lostcolony on Thursday November 29, 2018 @07:36PM (#18565591)

They already have. You're entering a market, as you say, where every contemporary is a super senior developer, for old, rich companies like banks, and with demand staying static...but supply dropping.

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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by jonathanpoulter on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:19PM (#18566063)

I've read this multiple times, and I'm sure it's an intuive argument. Is it actually true though?

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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by pjmlp on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:16AM (#18567556)

Yep, I am aware of projects currently looking for COBOL devs in Germany.

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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by gbersac on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:20AM (#18568287)

I am aware of projects which look for developer using any language. That doesn't make COBOL special though ^^

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