What's more impressive is you all had to work on old systems that used COBOL. And if there was any documentation, it was a printout with notes written on it because every bit was precious. It is scary how much we rely on things no one knows anymore.
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I look after mission critical systems written in COBOL and much older languages.
It would be a very scary story if we documented how much of govt or the financial industry is still locked into such languages
I've been considering studying legacy languages and making that my specialty. I think it should be a CS and CE minor at universities. I am just on the cusp of those degrees existing and part of the generation that learned by taking things apart and screwing up really badly. I broke DOS.
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It would be a very scary story if we documented how much of govt or the financial industry is still locked into such languages
iow, don't be a programmer in legacy languages. be a programmer who can pick up a new language on the fly. that'll make you far more valuable.