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  • Cobol's Death

    In the last several months, some experts have said that Cobol is dead or at least dying. What say you?

    We wrote a somewhat researched article on the matter at our blog: http://www.odinjobs.com/blogs/career...reports_of_its

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    Re: Cobol's Death

    They have said this for years. Whoever said that wasn't the first. COBOL might not be a booming language like it once was, but rest assured that there is a lot of code out there to be maintained because a lot of your bank software is written in it. COBOL programmers are becoming more scarce as time goes on because there isn't an overwhelming amount of *new* development being done. The field is not very attractive to the younger guys coming out of school.

    If only they knew how much they would be able to charge as a contract worker with 3-5 years of experience they might change their minds...but I digress.

    COBOL will be around for a few years yet. And the job security for current COBOL programmers is only getting more and more secure.
    Your future President
    Bryce

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      Re: Cobol's Death

      As Bryce indicated, the reports of COBOL's demise have been greatly exaggerated, and have been for some time.

      The design of the language is geared towards processing business data with a strong affinity for fixed point decimal arithmetic, using an easily understood syntax (provided the application has been well written...many are, some are not...).

      Most of the largest IT systems in the financial world are still running COBOL on their backend systems. This includes banks, insurance companies, government systems, state goverments and international monetary transfer systems, etc.

      In addition, there are also *huge* backend, home-grown ERP systems written in COBOL running in large-scale manufacturing systems.

      It's going to be quite a long time before it will die off

      Terry

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        Re: Cobol's Death

        i'd be concerned with the y10k COBOL fixes...
        I'm not anti-social, I just don't like people -Tommy Holden

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          Re: Cobol's Death

          That's the thing, they warned them during the y2k years to make their year fields 5 digits (fix it and forget it)... doesn't anyone EVER learn their lesson?
          Your future President
          Bryce

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