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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (16 children)

Until it becomes obsolete, unsupportable, the crux of your operation, and/or the basis for all of your decisions 😬

(Yes, I read the article, it’s just the signs, but yes, the above still applies!)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

COBOL has entered the chat

e: good for legacy employment though. A relative of mine is a Z80 programmer by trade, and he can effectively walk into a job because the talent pool is so small now. Granted - the wages are never great but never poor, and the role is maintenance and troubleshooting rather than being on the leading edge of development - but it's a job for life.

[–] Kecessa 10 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Every time I hear about COBOL I feel like I should try to learn it as a backup plan...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm in two minds about that. One the one hand, yes, of course - as all the original COBOL folks die off, the skills will be even rarer and thus worth more.

On the other hand, if we keep propping up old shit, the businesses will keep relying on it and it'll be even more painful when they do eventually get forced to migrate off it.

On the other other hand, we know it works, and we don't want to migrate everything into a series of Electron apps just because that's popular at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Part of the problem is the cost of moving off it. Some companies simply can't pay what that would cost, and that's before you consider the risk.

Tough spot to be in.

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