McKown, John wrote:
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1132588.html
<quote>
The massive pay cut would exhaust the state's antiquated payroll system,
which is built on a Vietnam-era computer language so outdated that many
college students don't even bother to learn it anymore.
Huh? How does a pay cut exhaust a payroll system? What does that mean,
to "exhaust a system"?
...
The state payroll system is based on the COBOL, or Common Business
Oriented Language, programming language - a code first introduced in
1959 and popularized in the 1960s and 1970s.
"COBOL programmers are hard to come by these days," said Fred Forrer,
the Sacramento-based CEO of MGT of America, a public-sector consulting
firm. "It's certainly not a language that is taught. Oftentimes, you
have to rely on retired annuitants to come back and help maintain the
system until you're able to find a replacement."
</quote>
We can teach them young whippersnappers COBOL quickly. (But, of
course, not for free!)
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