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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. Re:Why is Cobol still alive? by jacobsm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wrong. There are COBOL compilers for all(most) platforms.

    Wrong. Any computer only executes (runs) machine instructions. Any language, COBOL, C/C++, Assembler, JAVA, ... gets compiled into machine language before execution.

    There are compilers for all languages on the mainframe.

  2. Re:Why is Cobol still alive? by clueless_geek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wrong. Cobol runs on windows as well and Mainframes run C, Java etc...