As a young(er)-ish person who used COBOL and JCL in a previous lifetime and still have an IBM in my current life… can we just PLEASE keep using this safe (albeit old) technology? In human history or art history we don’t disregard what came before- we study it. We use it, and it teaches us how to move forward. Someone smarter than me could try connecting COBOL to RUBY and start a base layer infrastructure that is usable. Then - and this is the real key- teach the childrens. In junior high school, stop teaching stupid maths concepts that will not be useful to a broad range of people and teach this. Tech history and computing theory. (Make it an elective or whatever). 3 basic types of servers. How to FTP. What TSO is. How jobs run. What CICS is. How to interact with data.
As a young(er)-ish person who used COBOL and JCL in a previous lifetime and still have an IBM in my current life… can we just PLEASE keep using this safe (albeit old) technology? In human history or art history we don’t disregard what came before- we study it. We use it, and it teaches us how to move forward. Someone smarter than me could try connecting COBOL to RUBY and start a base layer infrastructure that is usable. Then - and this is the real key- teach the childrens. In junior high school, stop teaching stupid maths concepts that will not be useful to a broad range of people and teach this. Tech history and computing theory. (Make it an elective or whatever). 3 basic types of servers. How to FTP. What TSO is. How jobs run. What CICS is. How to interact with data.