• Deebster
    14•11 months ago

    Lisp variants like Clojure are being used for new projects (e.g. Logseq) but I’d be surprised to hear of anyone choosing COBOL for a greenfield project.

    • mesaEnglish
      10•11 months ago

      Yeah the only reason someone should learn COBOL is job security and potentially making a living moving things over. No reason to start a project in the lang. You can make flat files into ODBCs nowadays.

      I suppose the ability to be left alone because everyone is afraid the COBOL person leaves and the company goes under is a good reason :)