New Jersey needs volunteers who know COBOL, a 60-year-old programming language 📦

4    07 Apr 2020 02:56 by u/lenn_king

6 comments

2 u/kek 07 Apr 2020 03:58
Shocking
2 u/phallus 07 Apr 2020 08:12
Seems like they'd be better off hiring 10 modern programmers to update their system to a modern standard and not fail so hard.
1 u/None 12 Apr 2020 01:34
Not that easy. For what it's used for in most cases it's hard to beat and the systems that it runs on tend to be pretty damn bulletproof. In theory I agree with you but I have worked In places that attempted to do what you are suggesting and in each case it failed big time
1 u/None 10 Apr 2020 01:57
With all the banking infrastructure in the north east that shouldn't be too hard to find them. Heck many hospitals still have mainframes for revenue cycle tasks and cobol is used.
0 u/_Account_7b 07 Apr 2020 05:26
Haha, this seems like agenda-based fake news. Why the #^%$ would New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy allegedly say anything relating to COVID-19/Coronavirus concerns can be processed with jobs using 60 year old computer technology? This seems like a scam signaling that Phil Murphy is blackmailable/exploitable/colludable/extortionable/propagandizable/etc, haha.
0 u/_Account_7b 07 Apr 2020 05:32
Here are 1,082 repositories on GitHub that are COBOL, sorted by most stars: https://github.com/search?l=&o=desc&q=language%3ACOBOL&s=stars&type=Repositories