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Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016) by xboxnolifes on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:55PM (#38649696)
It has nothing to do with mastering COBOL. It has everything to do with mastering the banking systems.
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Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016) by mastazi on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:16AM (#38651236)
Yeah, that's true of anything related to the finance sector IMHO regardless if it's COBOL or Java or Python.

The language you happen to be using in your system is almost inconsequential in the grans scheme of things, because it's like 1% of everything that's going on and that you need to know.

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