COBOL forums

[szlamany]

Post a question here that you have - let's see if we can answer it...

[Hack]

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[RhinoBull]

I can't believe they still teach COBOL in scholls.

[Hack]

I can't believe they still teach COBOL in scholls.

With all of the legacy COBOL code out there I can see a need for COBOL programmers for years to come.

Here is a COBOL FAQ site that I found with a forum. I can not attest to its quality however.

I Googled "Cobol Forums" and got back quite a few hits. Try it and see if you find anything that looks interesting.

[szlamany]

I can't believe they still teach COBOL in scholls.

Check out this link - look for COBOL in some of the graphs - it's actually still a lot bigger then most people want to believe...

http://www.dedasys.com/articles/lang...opularity.html

Most of the big legacy insurance and claims processing software is still written in COBOL - lot's of ordering systems - will take 20 more years for it to all be ported or "glazed over" (with COBOL still as the backend!).

[Hack]

Most of the big legacy insurance and claims processing software is still written in COBOL

I'm in the insurance industry and I can definately attest to this!!!

[szlamany]

The Big Blues still push around a 1000-byte cobol formatted record - the packed numeric datatypes are so difficult to deal with in SQL...

[RhinoBull]

Hmm, I'm well aware of the legacy apps but what I am surprised is the fact that there were many (many) COBOL programmers "let go" after the Y2K nonsense was over and many of them are still looking to get back so why in the heck would you want to hire someone with no COBOL background when you can [figurally speaking] wistle and get someone with very heavy experience???