Uni profs: Kids today could do with a bit of 'mind-crippling' COBOL

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 11, 2013 8:35 PM EDT
The Register; By Gavin Clarke
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Want a guaranteed job in IT? Learn COBOL, even if it cripples you mentally – that’s the advice of university profs teaching tech. Ignore, for a second, the fact COBOL doesn’t feature in the top 20 of languages developers are using in anger today. Those in charge of setting university IT curricula reckon there’s no better guarantee of a job than tooling up on COBOL.

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I took COBOL off my CV years ago gary_newell 29 2,294 Mar 23, 2013 8:36 PM

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