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0 pointsbryanrasmussen3y ago0 comments

Ok, well if that was the case then the original description of rich people paying to maintain out of date things would probably fall into the same scenario - although my experience is whenever I have checked COBOL over the years the wages have never been particularly impressive.

on edit: amusingly, there is a relevant front page discussion right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36055986

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pydry3y ago

>Ok, well if that was the case then the original description of rich people paying to maintain out of date things would probably fall into the same scenario

Not really. We're comparing a programming language that has been legacy since the 1990s and has been gradually phased out over a period of 30 years and a process that accelerates the creation of legacy code in any language.

COBOL was always going to die eventually. I think, if anything, the fact you can still net over 100k writing it in 2023 kinda proves my point.

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