That's right. COBOL. I am learning COBOL. Its a long story as to why. All I can say is, there are some amazing programmers out there who are retiring now who have written some awesome COBOL programs. It is something of a wonder that so much in life that I took for granted runs on COBOL. And until this week, I had no idea how much of what's out there is dependent on COBOL and other old languages.
From DMVs to supply chains, lots of things run quietly in the background, making life function. A lot of it is not running today's technology; rather, it is running on mainframes with code written years ago. Food for thought eh?
