COBOL

Is that the binary shit with 1000's of cards that you have to use to program the smallest amount of info?
 

 

back in the mid nineties I made thousands placing microfocus cobol developers at clients throughout the southeast.

those guys aggregate ages back then were mid 50s at the youngest.  not sure how many cobol programmers are left out there these days

My Uncle coded FORTRAN at MIT in '62

 

 

when I read the article I thought it had to be satire, sadly no