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Re:The code that controls our money by throwawaylinux on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:36AM (#28466238)
Learning COBOL doesn't require you were born in the 1940s though. If COBOL jobs were paying what "AI" jobs are now, more people would start learning it.

A shock or major unforeseen event could cause a shortage for a time. But we've been hearing about the dire shortage of COBOL programmers for 30 years or more haven't we? Yet in that time apparently they haven't either migrated their systems off COBOL, started paying people more, or decided they don't need to invest as much effort into it? Doesn't seem all that credible.

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Re:The code that controls our money by perl4ever on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:29AM (#28466584)
Well, yes, you've cleverly deduced there is no real shortage.

There aren't any significant number of people wringing their hands over it for 30 years either.

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Re:The code that controls our money by throwawaylinux on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:32AM (#28466606)
You're welcome, glad I could clear that up for you.
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Re:The code that controls our money by perl4ever on Thursday September 09, 2021 @07:45PM (#28476076)
Local vs global.
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