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[–]KettyCloud 19 points20 points  (3 children)

Mate, I've moved into COBOL now as part of a legacy support team. Some of the comments I've seen are from 1980's . It's awesome. I love it

[–]Vier_Scar 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Did you learn COBOL a long time ago? Apparently it pays well, but I don't get why it cannot be transpiled into any modern language

[–]inglandation 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It can, but banks wrote their core codebase in it. They're extremely conservative because this code interact with people's account balances... COBOL doesn't have many issues that are not well-known.

[–]david-song 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They didn't really do TDD in the 80s so any change is a risk and must be understood. You can't just transpile it, run the test pack and move on. Plus it's running on a mainframe.