I felt a great disturbance in the Force - IBM

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As if millions of voices cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. (Obi-Wan Kenobi) From Input Magazine:

IBM will offer free COBOL training to address overloaded unemployment systems
IBM is releasing a free training course next week to teach the 60-year-old programming language COBOL to coders. It is also launching a forum where those with knowledge of the language can be matched with companies in need of help maintaining their critical systems.

The moves come in response to desperate pleas by state governors for anyone with knowledge of COBOL to volunteer their time to help keep unemployment systems functioning, a critical need as the coronavirus has resulted in an unprecedented surge in people being laid off and having to claim unemployment benefits.

Talk about dragging the art of programming back into the stone ages. Played with COBOL a long long time ago and it has some cool features but it is really easy to write spaghetti-code so debugging is a bear. Discovered C and have not looked back (although FORTH is a lot of fun and scripting languages like LUA are very cool).

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