Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving
by throwawayboise on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:00PM
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> Cobol programming is a skill that is trivially taught.
And this used to be very common. My first job out of school in the early 1990s was with a "big consulting firm" they had a boot camp where they taught COBOL to batches of new hires. You did that for a month, and then were deployed to a client site writing COBOL about 50 hours a week.
And this used to be very common. My first job out of school in the early 1990s was with a "big consulting firm" they had a boot camp where they taught COBOL to batches of new hires. You did that for a month, and then were deployed to a client site writing COBOL about 50 hours a week.