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[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 89 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There are people learning Latin in case it comes back. COBOL isn't that much older

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

too be fair I studied Latin at school 40 years ago so this tracks

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago

We found a COBOL programmer in the wild!

I’d ask you to retire and finally give a young person a chance, but none of them want to wait for floppy drives to load.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I work with COBOL programmers who came to Australia as adult refugees from an American war in South East Asia

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Excuse my ignorance but is COBOL still spoken there? Sometimes language islands survive you wouldn't expect

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I met a young man intent on learning, not as a first language, but he had hopes of becoming fluent

My past job was as a translator between business (in their "requirements" and "feature" languages) to COBOL programmers in something like careful unambiguous English (of which most have a reasonable understanding)