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- Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-you-know-cobol-if-so-there-might-be-a-job-for-you-1537550913 53 comments
- Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it https://opensource.com/article/17/8/what-about-cobol 135 comments
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- The Inevitable Return of COBOL http://blog.hackerrank.com/the-inevitable-return-of-cobol/ 13 comments programming
- How to use the trim function in Cobol? https://devhubby.com/thread/how-to-use-the-trim-function-in-cobol 6 comments cobol
- Top Rated Cobol Books of June 2022 https://freelanceshack.com/blog/best-cobol-books-to-learn 3 comments cobol
- Why COBOL persists None 6 comments cobol
- Spend millions of dollars to train a couple people on Cobol....refuse to even attempt to upgrade to newer technologies... https://www.techrepublic.com/article/these-old-programming-languages-are-still-critical-to-big-companies-but-nobody-wants-to-learn-them/ 272 comments programming
- Learning COBOL: A Journey For The Modern Programmer https://monadical.com/posts/cobol.html 17 comments programming
- Why COBOL isn't the problem https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2020/11/13/why-cobol-isnt-the-problem/ 55 comments programming
- How much does the software required for learning COBOL cost? https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/ 10 comments cobol
- Judge0 IDE adds COBOL support https://ide.judge0.com/?M3hM 6 comments cobol
- COBOL Isn't The Issue: A Misinterpreted Crisis https://hackaday.com/2020/04/20/cobol-isnt-the-issue-a-misinterpreted-crisis/ 85 comments programming
- Anyone think they can figure out COBOL? https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/14/21219561/coronavirus-pandemic-unemployment-systems-cobol-legacy-software-infrastructure 8 comments cobol
- IBM will offer free COBOL training to address overloaded unemployment systems https://www.inputmag.com/tech/ibm-will-offer-free-cobol-training-to-address-overloaded-unemployment-systems 6 comments nottheonion
- IBM is releasing a free course and forum next week to teach COBOL programming language, as US states struggle to find programmers for old unemployment systems https://www.inputmag.com/tech/ibm-will-offer-free-cobol-training-to-address-overloaded-unemployment-systems 13 comments technology
- New Jersey needs volunteers who know COBOL, a 60-year-old programming language https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/fwtphj/new_jersey_needs_volunteers_who_know_cobol_a/ 28 comments cscareerquestions
- COBOL: Coronavirus pandemic exposes urgent need for programmers of a very old computer language https://mashable.com/article/coronavirus-unemployment-cobol-programmers/ 7 comments cobol
- NJ needs COBOL programmers https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/?fbclid=IwAR2pDmzsrwsFyWyOUhg_c5NAm2EX12xCcaLVSgoiH3nM56f5WIk9db6DlEM 8 comments cobol
- The World's First COBOL Bootcamp https://www.gracehopper.com/curriculum/cobol 55 comments programming
- Cobol developer position https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/acv3nq/cobol_developer_position/ 25 comments cscareerquestions
- Why COBOL is still being used https://medium.com/@bellmar/is-cobol-holding-you-hostage-with-math-5498c0eb428b 73 comments programming
- What are my career options after being a COBOL developer? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6rpqlr/what_are_my_career_options_after_being_a_cobol/ 6 comments cscareerquestions
- Can someone explain to me the reason behind all the disdain for COBOL https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor/comments/6fm209/perhaps_im_too_young/ 11 comments programming
- COBOL Is Everywhere. Who Will Maintain It? - The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/cobol-everywhere-will-maintain/ 132 comments programming
- Feedback on my very first COBOL program? https://bitbucket.org/snippets/ClassySteve/Gq5ez 9 comments cobol
- As institutional memory leaves and fewer people know skills such as COBOL, companies stake their business on software and hardware that they don’t understand, don’t know how to fix should it break, and can’t afford to replace. https://www.laserfiche.com/simplicity/need-legacy-modernization/ 97 comments programming
- Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer https://medium.com/@svenskunganka/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe-cobol-programmer-c693d40d88f7#.yvqqpzep9 10 comments coding
- Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer https://medium.com/@svenskunganka/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe-cobol-programmer-c693d40d88f7#.kiw240b6p 244 comments programming
- 96 of the top 100 banks are still using mainframes and legacy code written in COBOL from the 1980s https://www.selflender.com/blog/why-fintech-innovation-is-broken-at-its-core.html 138 comments technology
- Trying to Learn Cobol, Looking for good Tutorials/Resources/Books/eBooks Anything to help! http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0Gj4hQxJVrc/TKMptVKDuHI/AAAAAAAAABk/cVGcDQjMBsU/s1600/myfirst+login.bmp 4 comments cobol
- Writing my first program in COBOL, I'm a bit lost. http://pastebin.com/AzWBreV7 2 comments cobol
- Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its successor (and other reflections after GopherCon) http://influxdb.org/blog/2014/04/30/java-is-the-cobol-of-my-generation-and-go-is-its-successor.html 4 comments golang
- Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9225079/Brain_drain_Where_Cobol_systems_go_from_here_?taxonomyName=Data+Center&taxonomyId=154 27 comments sysadmin
- Java is not the new COBOL http://tataryn.net/2011/11/java-is-not-the-new-cobol 166 comments programming
- COBOL's Not Dead. Make it Play Nice with the Modern Enterprise http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/01/cobols-not-dead-in-the-enterprise.php 42 comments programming
- For all you Cobol programmers out there: Visual Cobol! http://vs2010.microfocus.com/visual-cobol.html 32 comments programming
- Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/small_exhibition.cfm?key=1267&exkey=988&pagekey=989 6 comments programming
- The problem is, nobody I knew wrote [COBOL] like that. It was more like: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6ca53d40de4f0cae?dmode=source 6 comments programming
- How does an article about COBOL turning 50 *not* mention Rear Admiral Grace Hopper? http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/319269/cobol_turns_50 10 comments programming
- Sudoku in COBOL http://homepage.mac.com/bprice1949/sudokucobol.html 9 comments programming
