Dwindling expertise a big worry as COBOL still underpins much of the US financial infrastructure
Think COBOL is dead? About 95 percent of ATM swipes use COBOL code, Reuters reported in April, and the 58-year-old language even powers 80 percent of in-person transactions. Tweets: @kentborg and @ron_miller Tweets: Kent Borg / @kentborg : Worshipping narrow “expertise” is silly. Any good programmer can learn COBOL. But if you only hire by keyword search, guess you're stuck! http://twitter.com/... Ron Miller / @ron_miller : Pretty fascinating report that 1960s programming language still has huge impact today. http://twitter.com/...