COBOL joke from 1999:

A COBOL programmer, tired of all the extra work and chaos caused by the impending Y2K bug, decides to have himself cryogenically frozen for a year so he can skip all of it.

He gets himself frozen, and eventually is woken up when several scientists open his cryo-pod.

“Did I sleep through Y2K? Is it the year 2000?”, he asks.

The scientists nervously look at each other. Finally, one of them says “Actually, it’s the year 9999. We hear you know COBOL.”

  • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
    16·
    20 hours ago

    As someone who knows COBOL, I’d say, don’t bother. People over exaggerate the availability and remuneration of COBOL jobs. Maybe they used to be well paid or there used to be lots of jobs, but it’s pretty much a myth these days.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      19 hours ago

      Well is that because everyone thinks they can get CodeGen to rewrite their COBOL stack and are gonna need someone to un-fuck their codebase in a few years? Because if so, that sounds like a great reason to learn COBOL.