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Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

234 points _false | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 13:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.31s | source

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?
1. smga3000 ◴[18 Jul 25 22:24 UTC] No.44610444[source]▶
I've done COBOL since the 80s, but I don't have a paying gig for it anymore. That said, I have situations where I need to process a flat file of data, and I find it a lot easier to just fire up gnucobol and write the program than try to remember the syntax for python or golang.