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Why not? COBOL has great job security.



I'm told COBOL itself doesn't actually. It's not hard to learn and lots of cheap workers in India will do it for you. The job security is knowing the mainframe tech stack in general, and the specific ways it's used in specific institutions that don't have good internal docs.


And keeps being updated to modern tooling and paradigms.

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv...

COBOL 2023 - https://www.iso.org/standard/74527.html




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