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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)
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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 year ago

Where do you learn this... Cobol?

[-] dipshit@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

My grandmother could teach you it, but she’s dead.

[-] jwt@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My cobolences.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

at university in the 1980s

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, so there's nowhere you can learn it now?

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Doubtful, I was just joking about how it's an older language that has become rare

Probably a few CS programs offer courses in it, if nothing else because it's historically important. And I'm sure one could teach it to themself via books and documentation

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