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[–] remington@beehaw.org 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My father-in-law is one of the last COBOL experts. Before he retired he spent 15 years training 3 people in COBOL so the business he worked for would not collapse. COBOL is irreplaceable and it is not being taught in any school in the USA.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

There's a lot more COBOL folks out there than people realize. It also is still being taught in some universities.

UNT has an entire mainframe-focused course track:

Texas A&M has at least one COBOL class as well: https://catalog.tamusa.edu/search/?P=CISA+2354

I haven't checked other unis, but I suspect there are plenty more.

That's not to say these clowns know anything about it though, or they wouldn't have been working for Must in the first place.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago

Interesting! I was almost certain that COBOL wasn't being taught anymore.