17 Feb
2015
17 Feb
'15
10:54 a.m.
On Feb 17, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
I wouldn't wish a COBOL career on my worst enemy. What a god-awful mess.
And yes, I know how and why it came to be. And all about legacy code bases and the high
cost of migration. I was forced to take cobol back in 1978, never attended a lecture,
handed in all the assignments, wrote the final, passed the course, and promptly forgot the
whole thing.
Still, what a god-awful mess :-)
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
My stars and garters--I just noticed the following article posted back in
September that college students learning COBOL make more money:
http://readwrite.com/2014/09/17/cobol-programming-language-hot-or-not
I've sat on the Industry Advisory Council a few times for our local
DeVry Institute campus... every year, they ask, "should we still teach
COBOL?" Every year, Motorist Insurance, Grange Insurance, Nationwide
Insurance, and JPM Chase say, "send us more people who know COBOL." A
few years ago, every graduate took 4 courses in COBOL. Now, they all
still take one, and if you are on the "Enterprise" (mainframe) track,
you still take the full series.