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		artine on July 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programm... My impression from the article was that the barrier to entry for new hires was less the language and more the domain-specific knowledge of the industry and the institution. Salient quote from the article: "the time before a new employee can stand on their own feet is 2–3 years"

danieltillett on July 15, 2016 [–]

Exactly. It is not like COBOL is that hard to learn, what is hard to learn is how these old systems work and what all the code is doing.

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