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Cobol Job Market Heating Up

Posted by timothy on from the dress-the-part-at-the-interview dept.

snydeq writes "Developers seeking job security in the years ahead could find an unlikely edge in Cobol. According to an InfoWorld report, demand for Cobol skills is surging, with salaries on the rise. More importantly, the short supply of offshore Cobol programmers and the fact that mainframes aren't going away anytime soon are spurring longevity for big-iron skills, with many companies looking to hire in-house Cobol pros to bridge mainframe Cobol apps to the rest of the enterprise. The report provides further evidence that Cobol may indeed be primed for a comeback, with new kinds of Cobol integration jobs emerging to prove old-guard skills are critical to some of the hottest areas of software development today."

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  1. Oh, well. . . let's do this by inaneframe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *Browses over to Amazon for a COBOL book and adds a meatgrinder to the shopping cart*

    While I'm emulsifying my brain I may as well do the same to my manhood.

    --
    "Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." -Asimov
  2. What do Cobol programmers actually do? by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm intrigued about this so hoping there might be a COBOL programmer to answer. Have the applications been ported to newer hardware, or are some banks still running ancient machines based on transistors and 1st generation microchips?

    I'm surprised there's still code to maintain on these old workhorses. Surely every bug must have been discovered by now, and every feature anyone could want added. Obviously not but what do COBOL programs need done to them?

    Oh, and guys - you can type directly on one of these new fangled desktop computers. No need to use punch cards.