12 May 2020
https://willfaught.com/2020/05/12/shortage-of-cobol-programmers/
Alicia Lee, writing for CNN:
On top of ventilators, face masks and health care workers, you can now add COBOL programmers to the list of what several states urgently need as they battle the coronavirus pandemic.
In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy has put out a call for volunteers who know how to code the decades-old computer programming language called COBOL because many of the state’s systems still run on older mainframes.