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

[Texx]

Elise is a COBOL person !

Interestingly enough, NJ is seeking VOLUNTEER COBOL people.
They want their system fixed and DONT want to PAY for it.

Suck rocks NJ!

IBM is now offering FREE COBOL classes (Im NOT making this up!)




On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 12:07 PM Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net>
wrote:

> 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
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