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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)

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[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

COBOL has entered the chat

e: good for legacy employment though. A relative of mine is a Z80 programmer by trade, and he can effectively walk into a job because the talent pool is so small now. Granted - the wages are never great but never poor, and the role is maintenance and troubleshooting rather than being on the leading edge of development - but it's a job for life.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Every time I hear about COBOL I feel like I should try to learn it as a backup plan...

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

I'm in two minds about that. One the one hand, yes, of course - as all the original COBOL folks die off, the skills will be even rarer and thus worth more.

On the other hand, if we keep propping up old shit, the businesses will keep relying on it and it'll be even more painful when they do eventually get forced to migrate off it.

On the other other hand, we know it works, and we don't want to migrate everything into a series of Electron apps just because that's popular at the moment.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Part of the problem is the cost of moving off it. Some companies simply can't pay what that would cost, and that's before you consider the risk.

Tough spot to be in.

[-] Yewb@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

You have to unlearn everything you know to learn it, go look its bad.

[-] Vector@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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