Ancient programming language COBOL can make you bank, literally

Banks and financial companies are desperate to find programmers who know COBOL, an almost 60-year old programming language that is still in full effect.

Source: Ancient programming language COBOL can make you bank, literally

Interesting article.  Cobol is my native programming language and still writing code for my day job in it.  Updating a system architected in Cobol is not easy or cheap.  The company I work for does much of the back-end of our web and PC based application in Cobol.


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