It’s a great time for the internet. Not so great for the banks that are stuck on 1998 technology.
It’s a great time for the internet. Not so great for the banks that are stuck on 1998 technology.
@sgtstretch I still wish there were classes and a “drivers license” exam one had to take to be allowed to get on the internet.
@Pilchuck A coder I know have been programming COBOL for a bank and a telco until very recently. @sgtstretch
@odd First hand knowledge. Many banks still use COBOL. Upgrading “would incur unreasonable feduciary risk to customers and the bank.” In other words, they want to keep what they know works. Some agencies still use FORTRAN.
@odd @Pilchuck @Archimage I had to do some work on FoxPro database a few years ago for a small regional airport. It was crap and I was thrilled be be done with that project.
@sgtstretch Right out of college I was hired at a place to convert their system from FoxPro, so I had to work with the only person left at the company that knew FoxPro and their whole system. Not fun!
@Archimage I worked for an insurance company in the 1980s; the official programming language was PL/I, a successor to COBOL that incorporated structured programming concepts. It was pretty nice. If I remember rightly, it tried to include COBOL as a subset so that old COBOL programs could be updated in PL/I. I'd guess that both languages are relics now. I will say that they were (by design) good at handling massive databases such as you find in financial institutions. I have no idea of how more modern languages measure up.
@Archimage Hey, I know FORTRAN! Or used to, anyway. But you know what they say, it’s like riding a velocipede… Does this mean there is still a future for me in the tech industry?
@sgtstretch Not too much. It did show me a more clear path for what I wanted to do in the future.