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Why 150 years olds are still getting social security benefits (lemmy.world)
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

My understanding is that even if you learn COBOL, you'd struggle to understand legacy systems since they have their quirks from a bygone era

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    That is absolutely true as well... though this may be just a personal anecdote, it seems to me that the few COBOL coders I once knew would be amongst the most likely to keep a solid documentation of their own systems.

    The problem with that though, is that their bosses are almost always too stupid to ask them for such documentation before they leave/retire, or to bother to preserve it when the exiting COBOL programmer gives it to them, because coding is magic to them, and you're either a good magician that can do the thing, or you're not.

    Upper management / C Suite seems to never understand why the term software engineer was/is used.

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