On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 18:34:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I'm a little surprised that there aren't more young programmers seeing that money and learning some COBOL. It's not a hard language.
Maybe he is referring to programmers that has intimate knowledge of the spaghetti-like application the bank uses? If they quit, the bank risks being shut down...
At any rate, there is only 1-2 ads that mentions Cobol here in Norway. So... kinda risky, but you probably get in-house Cobol and spaghetti-app training. You probably don't get a raise until you threaten to quit after mastering the spaghetti... ;)
