local news just had item about ancient software at state agencies, 619 major cobol applications developed in 80s ... frequent crashes&outages, almost impossible to maintain or change ... in part because of the lack of cobol programmers. The state is even considering setting up financial incentive for schools to produce cobol programmers.
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