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Good morning Ghot.
Good afternoon Keith.
You do know that Grace Hopper never invented COBOL? Her work pre-dates that - she invented the concept of the complier, writing the world's first in 1952. And it was from this that COBOL was developed in 1959.
Afternoon Bree.
Interestingly there's a shortage of COBOL programmers right now. Turns out ATM's & other older devices run on that language & since it hasn't been taught in quite a while, there's now a demand with older programmers retiring.
COBOL Programmers are Back In Demand. Seriously. | News | Communications of the ACM
Didn't think you would know it (would be a surprise if you did), hell I never even looked at the code for it.
But pretty funny (or sad depending on how you look at it) that an ancient language like that still runs so many machines. Of course my instructor a few years back at the college told me the older languages are more solid & less prone to errors then the new ones are.
I'm curious if they'll choose to upgrade the machines or if some of the colleges might start teaching it.
Read one article about a year or 2 ago about some young kid that learned it from a friend of his Dad's & he said he was pretty darn busy with the constant requests for service coming in.