[conspire] Second prize is *two weeks* in New Jersey

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

See, what happens when you never modernize things is a pandemic can hit and your never-modernized code from, well, the COBOL era can be just overwhelmed.

Which is why New Jersey is suddenly literally pleading for COBOL programmers. In 2020.

https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/

I last recall working with someone who admitted writing in COBOL in the early 1990s.

Deirdre