"The industry is struggling to find new COBOL programmers because few young programmers love the thought of maintaining decades-old enterprise systems where all data is global and GOTO is often the first choice in flow control."
A significant percentage of Freshers joining Indian it services companies like Infosys,tcs etc (who maintain such legacy systems) are trained in COBOL.
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"The industry is struggling to find new COBOL programmers because few young programmers love the thought of maintaining decades-old enterprise systems where all data is global and GOTO is often the first choice in flow control."
A significant percentage of Freshers joining Indian it services companies like Infosys,tcs etc (who maintain such legacy systems) are trained in COBOL.