From: Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com   
      
   On 1/10/26 14:33, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:   
      
   > Mostly new developers don't want to learn COBOL. They want to program   
   > video games, AI or other new things. But programming back end COBOL for   
   > banks don't attract new developers. So when someone learn computer   
   > science in university it's not to program in COBOL. But when someone   
   > learned Biology or other course without job opportunity, learning COBOL   
   > is better than being jobless or working for Mc Donald or other low level   
   > job.   
   >   
      
   Most of my career I worked on banking systems, I've never seen Cobol.   
   I'm not saying it isn't there, just not on any system I ever came into   
   contact with.   
      
   I suspect McDonald's promotes people capable of writing software.   
      
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