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Re:Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer by bogomipz on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:46PM (#26731003)
>"... I work in a city with literally thousands of former cobol developers who's jobs were offshored over the past two decades."

I was intrigued by this. Can you say what city and why there are so many Cobol developers there?

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Re:Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer by marktangotango on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:07PM (#26731308)
Any city with telecom, airline headquarters, and financial services. This one has all three. Could be Chicago, and others.
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Re:Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer by bogomipz on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:04PM (#26733274)
Interesting I always associate COBOL with banking I didn't know it was as equally entrenched in airlines and telecom as well.
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