I wouldn’t be mad about it, I hear there’s big bucks in the arcane languages.
There is?
Where exactly?
It’s been a while since I was told this, so not sure how true it still is, but there a was a niche but lucrative market for people who could maintain stuff in Fortran, COBOL and the like.
Because there were some critical antediluvian pieces of software in banking, big businesses, etc that some companies were terrified of having to replace one day.
I’d expect that by now most would have migrated to more common languages, but I don’t really know.
I heard that story, too… When I started studying. That was almost 20 years ago. I’d have assumed they had moved on until now if that hadn’t been an urban myth in the first place.
I’d be happier to be a fortran programmer than a java programmer tbh. It’s a great language.
To be honest, the first draft of this had the Shakespeare Programming Language in the last panel but the test audience (ie my co writer) had never heard about that one, so I changed it to something that wasn’t necessarily bad but rather just old and no longer really in use.
except it is still used a lot
Then just take this first draft (in German, but you know what they’re saying) and assume that to be canon instead.
My parents met in a Fortran class in college.
Guess that’s an indicator for the language being much less interesting than your parents thought each other were.
