Cobol Job Market Heating Up 288
snydeq writes "Developers seeking job security in the years ahead could find an unlikely edge in Cobol. According to an InfoWorld report, demand for Cobol skills is surging, with salaries on the rise. More importantly, the short supply of offshore Cobol programmers and the fact that mainframes aren't going away anytime soon are spurring longevity for big-iron skills, with many companies looking to hire in-house Cobol pros to bridge mainframe Cobol apps to the rest of the enterprise. The report provides further evidence that Cobol may indeed be primed for a comeback, with new kinds of Cobol integration jobs emerging to prove old-guard skills are critical to some of the hottest areas of software development today."
Write that shit for a living??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Write that shit for a living??? (Score:5, Funny)
This is why I'm keeping my Coldfusion skills up (Score:2, Funny)
Or as I refer to it "COBOL of the 90s"
Hand me my walker, it's time to get paid (Score:5, Funny)
Cue up the Theme from Shaft, I'm ready to walk that aisle. Twenty-eight years later, I am ready for my place in the sun. You bunch of Java-smoking hippies make a hole cause I'm coming through. I told you that personal microcomputers were a flash in the pan. Take your Winchester drives and Hercules graphics and shove em up your ass. Big Iron is here to stay.
Dammit, where are my car keys? Honey, where are the keys to the Citation?
Re:How do people learn it? (Score:5, Funny)
That's why the only people who can stand to work with it are elderly who are hard of hearing.
Re:How do people learn it? (Score:4, Funny)
To learn how to program on Linux years ago I scrapped together some used computer parts, put together a Linux system, and dove into code.
So to learn Cobol I guess I'd go dumpster diving for a mainframe. Hopefully one with some code left on it.
Yeesh! (Score:4, Funny)
I think you meant (Score:5, Funny)
SUBTRACT 1 FROM WS-OLD-KARMA GIVING WS-NEW-KARMA.
There, fixed that for you.
Re:Why is Cobol still alive? (Score:5, Funny)
What am I Bid, What am I bid? (Score:1, Funny)
Somewhere I have a 1970's vintage Cobol text book. Any takers?
time flies (Score:4, Funny)
Is it 9999 already???
Re:What am I Bid, What am I bid? (Score:3, Funny)
and I HaVe A FIREPLACE! Lets BURN IT!
Re:How do people learn it? (Score:4, Funny)
Then Oreilly should be an excellent start..
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
Re:I think you meant (Score:3, Funny)
You forgot your PIC statements!
Re:I think you meant (Score:3, Funny)
Dude! Im so there! Where is my $120?
Re:How do people learn it? (Score:1, Funny)
It's a trick! (Score:4, Funny)
I still think this is a trick to get all those Chinese and Indian software engineers to train for a worthless language, so we can get our old jobs back...
Re:Why is Cobol still alive? (Score:5, Funny)
Neither has anyone else!
Trust me, porting code you don't understand is not an option.
Re:How do people learn it? (Score:3, Funny)
Just make sure the mainframe is energy star rated. You don't want it trickling electricity when in sleep mode....
If you do buy one, let me know, I wanna start up a hydro business in your neighborhood.
Re:How do people learn it? (Score:2, Funny)
That is soooo unstructured.
Rewrite your procedure division thusly.
PERFORM INITIALIZATION
PERFORM MAIN-LOGIC
STOP RUN
.
(notice the structured period?)
Re:Write that shit for a living??? (Score:1, Funny)
Edsger Dijkstra remarked that "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense".. From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org].
Re:How do people learn it? (Score:3, Funny)
Woohoo! Finally a use for that CapsLock key!