Ask HN: Is anyone programming in modern COBOL?

Re:Ask HN: Is anyone programming in modern COBOL? by yuppie_scum on Saturday December 18, 2021 @10:51PM (#29611145)

Didn’t you see the stories last year about states like NJ scrambling to hire COBOL contractors to maintain legacy software?

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone programming in modern COBOL? by exdsq on Saturday December 18, 2021 @11:23PM (#29611293)

Yes! This stems from another HN thread where I found out COBOL 2014 is fully OO with features like recursion. Hence asking about modern COBOL, as opposed to legacy 40 year old code.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone programming in modern COBOL? by the_only_law on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:15PM (#29616558)

I thought they were scrambling to to find COBOL “volunteers”.

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