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The Six Stages of Code Grief (suppo.fi)

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure that knowing COBOL isn't the hard part. It has relatively few language concepts.

This lack of language concepts just makes it difficult to reason about it, so that's what you're getting a paycheck for. Well, and possibly also because it might take months to have a new dev figure out your legacy codebase, so it's cheaper to keep the current dev by paying them competitive prices.