Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset
Been working on accounting systems in RPG and COBOL since ~1992.  I also know C/X86ASM/Pascal/Delphi/VB/Fortran.  Never bothered with C++ that much; played with Java a bit but Oracle irritates my bowels so moved away from that.<p>As mentioned in the article it's good work; but it is also not easy work.  You tend to go through cycles of being pushed out to brought back under extreme emergency at any costs to get stuff working.  Only for the cycle to repeat.  Companies never think of the old guys as the ones to implement the new system - that's a job for the "enterprise experts" - I can't even keep track of how many "rewrites" I've seen in my life fail because of this.<p>We are the dinosaur club; but it's a club that pays extremely well (high 6 figures a year without working too hard if you are talented and have a good client base and reputation), but like fossil fuel one day it will all be gone ;)