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Does anyone have experience working for or hiring consultants from http://toptal.com ? They say they let you “Hire the top 3% of freelance Clojure developers” https://www.toptal.com/clojure
Never heard of them. I’ll be interested to hear what people say about them.
I heard @bozhidar mentioned that he works for Toptal - maybe he has some interesting info
The top 3% of COBOL programmers is this guy with a really long, white beard sitting in the basement.
@lmergen $billions invested in cobol systems. probably bal too - i once worked on a banking system that was written entirely in assembler.
yeah, it was more tongue in cheek. i actually understood that COBOL devs are in incredibly high demand, earning great salaries
yeah, that hurts. i probably could have made a bundle during the Y2K scare, but that was too depressing to contemplate.
I wonder if you can make a nice Linj for COBOL. (“Linj” is a lisp-like language that outputs readable Java. Jnil does the reverse—take Java & compiles it to readable Linj.) https://github.com/xach/linj/blob/master/doc/java-for-lispers.pdf
i did learn one really terrific language in my mainframe days - Rexx. Netrexx was the first non-java language to target the jvm, and still on of the best, second only to clojure: http://www.netrexx.org
I don’t have COBOL on my résumé but I did a lot of it in the early 80's, including porting Microfocus COBOL to the Sun 4 (before it was called SPARC) and the Motorola 78000 (before it was renamed 88000). The former became Sun COBOL 1.0. Their compiler was written primarily in COBOL(!) with a small portable bootstrap written in C, and then you had to write a tiny loader for each platform in assembler. It was designed around a virtual machine, a full decade before the JVM…
…I don’t have COBOL on my résumé because I don’t want recruiters offering me “lucrative maintenance contracts” for it.
(nor do I have FORTRAN on it, for similar reasons… and, at this point, I should probably remove C, C++, Prolog, and a few other things that I no longer want to work in!)