• embix@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    all other employers demand modern technologies

    There are a lot of employers that’ll throw good money at you for maintaining and extending their outdated crap. Have you ever considered learning COBOL?

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      10 months ago

      No wonder COBOL programmers are paid a lot, because what would be a 1-liner for “hello world” in other languages looks like this in Cobol:

      IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
      PROGRAM-ID. IDSAMPLE.
      ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
      PROCEDURE DIVISION.
          DISPLAY 'HELLO WORLD'.
          STOP RUN.
      

      This is already $6000 worth of code right there!