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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cobol is the B-52 of programming languages. Sure there are fancy and expensive new ones or there, but it'll probably outlast them all.

[–] hglman@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's a pretty good analogy, but it's Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.

[–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Grace Fucking Hopper

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

So move fast and break things, 60s edition.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago

Cobol is a Hornet. Still used for production in first-world countries, but basically just because of shitty, slow-moving institutions.