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COBOL legacy systems in finance and government are somewhat of a meme. However, I've never actually met a single person who's day job is to maintain one. I'd be curious to learn what systems are you working on?
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This is in my past, so no COBOL recently but in one of my first consulting gigs I wrote several business programs in RPG III. Which is the nightmare that you might imagine it is. Think plugboards. Halfway through the IBM guy came by and installed COBOL and wow what a difference. My last act was to recommend that they get a computer department. And so Tom Monaghan called IBM