• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Learning to COBOL is not itself that hard.

    Understanding decades of “business” logic is.

    It isn’t WHAT it is doing, it’s WHY it is doing it that makes these systems labyrinthian.

    Also afaik they don’t get paid that well which is part of the problem.