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treewojima posted...

The problem with COBOL is more that it's been superseded by Java and now other language stacks as the primary business solution. Nobody goes to school to learn COBOL, so the pool of developers is primarily composed of old heads and the occasial upstart that was pushed into learning it to help maintain the system despite having no experience.

I guarantee that any COBOL code you run into is ancient and kept on life support for as long as possible to avoid switching to a new platform. Makes sense from a business perspective, but absolutely zero from a development one since it hinders new features and adaptation to new unexpected technologies like cloud computing.

That's the impression I've gotten. Most of the programmers that know COBOL are super old/retiring and hardly anyone new wants to learn it (for obvious reasons). Seems like a disaster waiting to happen.