Subj : Re: COBOL?
To : Dumas Walker
From : Dr. What
Date : Fri May 05 2023 07:20 am
-=> Dumas Walker wrote to DR. WHAT <=-
> IHMO: The demand is good - now. But the market is actively trying to reduce
> that demand. So in the long term, a COBOL career is not a good way to go.
DW> While I tend to agree with you, that is what they were saying after Y2K
DW> came and passed. That was 23 years ago. :)
But they were right. The number of COBOL jobs dropped significantly after Y2K.
And most of the ones left are maintenance jobs.
I never said that COBOL was gone. But as a long term career, COBOL is a poor
choice. Now, COBOL plus <something else> may be a good thing in most companies
today. But a COBOL-only programmer isn't going to have a good job for 20
years.
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