This is fantastic, and as someone who graduated college just after the Y2K freakout, I am well aware of those COBOL programmers. I knew a few of those greybeards still doing programming from that era, whether it's COBOL or FORTRAN, or the UNIX side of things with old Lisp, C, etc.
My COBOL is SQL with a healthy dose of old school Javascript and multiple Microsoft products. None of those are sexy, but everyone seems to need some variation of those at some point. Including my most recent project, where I spent the last nine months helping end a 3+ year effort using SSIS (with C# and SQL scripts embedded) to transfer ~30 years worth of mainframe data over to a modern system.
And yes, part of that mainframe app. was written in COBOL, and was being used actively until the end of this August. ;)
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This is fantastic, and as someone who graduated college just after the Y2K freakout, I am well aware of those COBOL programmers. I knew a few of those greybeards still doing programming from that era, whether it's COBOL or FORTRAN, or the UNIX side of things with old Lisp, C, etc.
My COBOL is SQL with a healthy dose of old school Javascript and multiple Microsoft products. None of those are sexy, but everyone seems to need some variation of those at some point. Including my most recent project, where I spent the last nine months helping end a 3+ year effort using SSIS (with C# and SQL scripts embedded) to transfer ~30 years worth of mainframe data over to a modern system.
And yes, part of that mainframe app. was written in COBOL, and was being used actively until the end of this August. ;)