Someday people will be posting similar Javascript jabs on April 1 and laughing about how people could ever have had serious jobs working with such a ridiculous language.
In case people are confused - the Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy is a real bootcamp. They do not teach COBOL - that's the April Fool's joke.
This is interesting. I think 2020 is an achievable number.<p>I'm an accountant by profession, and since I program; I got thrown into a project at work where we had to reverse-engineer COBOL code to figure out what the banking system was doing. It was a painful exercise by today's standards as the code was badly written, but we pulled through.<p>There was a script of a few thousand lines, which calculated interest on most of the cheque and investment products. It had the "here be dragons" disclaimer. After defeating the dragons, I asked if I could add "dragon slayer was here", but that wasn't going to happen, so I made it my pinned tweet (@nevi_me).<p>I wonder if it would be worth my while to join the bootcamp and learn COBOL properly.
I thought this was going to be a historical article about some training camp Admiral Hopper arranged for swabbies who needed to learn COBOL.<p>Or at least for swabbies who <i>needed</i> to learn programming and were <i>going</i> learn COBOL because the way admiralty works.
Given that I've heard day rates as high as £2000 for a CIVIL engineer, this would be great if it is a real thing. Alas, the timing of the post suggests otherwise...