IBM will offer free COBOL training
It&#x27;s a trap.<p>The problem with those old codebases that governments, hospitals, big businesses are struggling with is not really the language, it&#x27;s the engineering practices of that time with regards to constraints of old technology. The language is not the problem - lack of comments, bad variable naming, bad structure (little or no procedures or readability), and just sheer volume of it, is.<p>It would be very interesting to see the old systems rewritten in a modern language, with modern engineering practices, but keeping the old UI and UX (which often is incredibly ergonomic) - so as to limit scope and not mess it all up by trying to introduce mouse navigation and windowing mess.