|03Quoting message from |11Kurt Weiske |03to |11Nick Andre
|03on |1109 May 22  21:52:37|03.

KW>   Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
KW>   By: Nick Andre to Dumas Walker on Mon May 09 2022 11:08 am
KW> 
NA> I kinda wished I studied Cobol or Fortran or mainframes or anything that
NA> the six-foot-tall-300-pound-bearded-wizards are retiring from, where they
NA> were paid all kinds of money and where there is apparently a HUGE demand
NA> that is not being filled by the millenial crowds.
KW> 
KW> Isn't there an epoch coming up in 2038 when UNIX time_t rolls over? Time t
KW> dust off the consulting web site...
KW> 
KW> Old languages are interesting to re-discover. I'm setting up a DOS VM most
KW> to play with Turbo Pascal, and I'm looking for a good FORTRAN environment 
KW> figure...)
KW> 
KW> Nowadays, you could emulate an old IBM system and write COBOL or RPG code 
KW> home system with more power than you'd have used back in the day.


i don't think there IS a big calling for cobol programmers like they expected.
i know most state's unemployment benefit systems were written in cobol.

they need to just scrap it and start over instead of trying workarounds.
my state rep was on the radio talking about how he was told it functions and 
it's so backwards and old i'm surprised it could handle anything, much less 
the bad times during covid.

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