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The future of COBOL is now

by rudilee on 12/1/20, 3:54 AM with 1 comments

  • by phendrenad2 on 12/1/20, 4:27 AM

    The important thing to note is, the COBOL skill shortage isn't as simple as say, a Python skill shortage would be. Learning COBOL itself is easy, but... all of the special-purpose databases and mainframes and stuff are the hard part. It's really an ecosystem problem.