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Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is the collective noun for COBOL programmers, cobblers?

[–] ma11en@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would have gone with COBOLLICKERS

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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

At what point does the cost of tech migration outweigh the cost of training people on a more and more specialist paid language just to not have to migrate to a memory safe higher level language like C or Go or Rust or Lua.

Didn't say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD

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