How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/08/01/2150243/How-Can-an-Old-School-Coder-Regain-His-Chops
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:20 AM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> I forwarded your screed to a programmer friend; he wrote back:
>
> "That is nonsense about Cobol being obsolete (and thus obscure). You
> certainly don't need to hire from India to get Cobol expertise, unless
> you are just looking for bottom dollar.
>
> Show me a Cobol program, I'll fix it real good, no problem. ;-)
>
> Honestly, Cobol is one of the simplest languages to ever get popular."
>
> It is true Cobol isn't very hard.
>
> Joanna
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