C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
“Some states have found themselves in need of people who know a 60-year old programming language called COBOL to retrofit the antiquated government systems now struggling to process the deluge of unemployment claims brought by the coronavirus crisis.”
I have research access to a government system that is based on COBOL.
It runs in a Windows-based terminal emulator – no GUI, keyboard only; type in commands at the command prompt and hit enter.
The problem, of course, is that there are few programmers around who speak this almost dead computer language.
COBOL, a 60-year-old computer language, is in the COVID-19 spotlight
As state governments seek to fix overwhelmed unemployment benefit systems, they need programmers skilled in a language that was passé by the early 1980s.
www.fastcompany.com
I have research access to a government system that is based on COBOL.
It runs in a Windows-based terminal emulator – no GUI, keyboard only; type in commands at the command prompt and hit enter.
The problem, of course, is that there are few programmers around who speak this almost dead computer language.