m0smithslash's Journal: Better learn COBOL

In the Mar 29 issue of ComputerWorld is an interview with Peter Harris, founder of the language and the company known as ADPAC, which has been around for 40 years in the software business. Among some the things he says is:

I kept telling everybody, "There ain't nobody going to change over to Java." It's a crazy language. It's more like C++. It's difficult to program, difficult to maintain; who's going to do it? Now, programmers, when they go to school, what do they learn? They learn C++. Where are they going to get a job? They can't get a job until they can boast some Cobol experience.

Guess I better learn COBOL.

I guess that I don't have a job, after all

[johndiii]

I wonder just what it is that they're paying me for?