COBOL

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COBOL (common business-oriented language) is an English-like programming language designed for business use.

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US banks rely on a 65-year-old programming language; companies are paying a premium for developers who know it (m.economictimes.com)

submitted 5 days ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/cobol@programming.dev

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[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My Aunt and Uncle are both retired COBOL programmers who tried to persuade me to pick up the language as they said those mainframes cost a lot and are still running and are not going anywhere for a while.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 11 points 5 days ago

I had a teacher talk about learning cobol for this reason - 40 years ago.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 5 days ago

There's a chance even for you grandchildren to still find employment in COBOL, imo