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Re:GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 by galoisgirl on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:30AM (#25397608)
"Passionate" is usually BS for "has no boundaries and is willing to work overtime for free".

I love my job, and I leave work at work so it stays that way.

Re:GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 by the_af on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:37AM (#25397861)
Agreed about the general BS meaning of "passion", but in this case I meant "liking software and building things with it". People maintaining legacy corporate systems written in COBOL -- the most common usage of this language -- don't exactly belong in this category. Which, as I said before, is perfectly fine: not everyone has to like software, maybe a job is just a job and you just need the paycheck. But all those recurrent articles praising COBOL somehow manage to forget this...