cobol post
(midwest.social)
not_IO
Programmer HumorCOBOL joke from 1999:
A COBOL programmer, tired of all the extra work and chaos caused by the impending Y2K bug, decides to have himself cryogenically frozen for a year so he can skip all of it.
He gets himself frozen, and eventually is woken up when several scientists open his cryo-pod.
"Did I sleep through Y2K? Is it the year 2000?", he asks.
The scientists nervously look at each other. Finally, one of them says "Actually, it's the year 9999. We hear you know COBOL."
If you ever plan to kidnap a COBOL developer, make sure to offer their employer a "double-rate same day delivery option" in the ransom.
I feel like I have seen multiple such fight memes from this restaurant. What is going on there? Are they ok?
For real, I should just teach myself cobol and have a guaranteed sequence of jobs for life
The language itself is not hard. It's reading other people's code written in it that is hard.
So basically like any other programming language.
Yeah and I’ve got near on two decades of experience, so I think it’s worth a shot lol
I bet it has better dependency management / fewer ecosystem issues than C++, somehow
I've thought about this many times lol
