Literally, WTF?
It lives?For the unenlightened, COBOL is one of the oldest programming languages out there, invented in 1959…And your local friendly stock market/corporation/defense force still uses it. So why do I care? Because I can get a job programming in it easily, since COBOL programmers are in high demand and low supply.Here's why:
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000010* Comment COBOL style000020 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.000030 PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD.000040 DATA DIVISION.000050 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.000060 01 HelloText PIC X(12) VALUE 'Hello World!'.000070 PROCEDURE DIVISION.000080 PARAGRAPH-LABEL000090 DISPLAY HelloText000100 STOP RUN.
wtf? lol that looks painful xD just what exactly can you do with it anyway?
Business programs. Basically.
It has some fairly useful file-record access functions, but I already have a personal library of C++ functions that can do more.well as old as it is, it would only make sense that something like C++ would be more efficient =P screw business programming, it's all about game devs now =D that's the fun side to programming.
'cept that I'll be earning $5922 USD for a junior position because of the fact that nobody wants to do it anymore :P
well yeah there's the money =p but ive lived poor my whole life, i dont really care any more, id rather work my ass off doing something i love for hardly any pay, versus doing something i hate for loads of pay.
Looks kinda like BASIC.
AlsoI agree. It looks painful.
Wanna get rich? Apply for a job as a COBOL programmer!
I learned this months ago.Holy shit I am moving out of this place sooner than I thought.