Under the influence of the new coronavirus, `` users of programming languages more than half a century ago '' are urgently recruited
At a press conference on April 4, 2020, Governor
COBOL-coding volunteers sought as creaking mainframes slow New Jersey's coronavirus response • The Register
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/05/new_jersey_seeks_cobol_volunteers/
COVID-19 Response: New Jersey Urgently Needs COBOL Programmers (Yes, You Read That Correctly)-Joseph Steinberg
https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/
COBOL is a programming language developed by late Grace Hopper and Gene Samet in 1959, and the overall score is 100 points in the `` popular programming language 2019 ' ' announced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers of America in 2019 With a ranking of 24.1 points and a ranking of 44 out of 52 languages, it is a programming language that is not very popular.
Regarding such COBOL, Governor Murphy said, 'The list of volunteers needed includes not only healthcare professionals but also those with COBOL skills who can modify legacy systems.' At this time, Governor Murphy mistakenly pronounced COBOL as 'Cobalt'.
Scene in which Murphy governor is referring to the COBOL is, of following the conference the video 54 minutes and 27 seconds you can see the play from around the.
ASL TRANSLATION: Governor holds coronavirus briefing on April 4, 2020-YouTube
`` COBOL was a language more than 60 years ago and was once the star of software development in industry and government, but in the late 1980s most universities had a curriculum in computer science, '' said Joseph Steinberg, a cybersecurity expert. The COBOL system is still used today, but software developers under the age of 50 have never seen a single line of COBOL code and don't want to write It's no wonder even the 62-year-old Governor of Goldman Sachs once misunderstood the name of COBOL. '
Engineers of programming languages developed more than 60 years ago are needed in 2020, because the unemployment insurance system created in the era when COBOL was the center of the development environment is still used today Because
New Jersey Labor and Workforce Development Bureau Robert fish catching Angelo Director-General, 'the employment authorities of the country but have inquiries from people who have been forced to stay at home is flooded, New Jersey is no exception. We The number of calls per week to our customer center has increased 17-fold, and our IT staff has been running mainframe systems more than 40 years ago in this situation. We're sorry for the inconvenience, but at the moment we're working on getting our customer's phone and email invoices into our system at the highest priority. '' Not described situations.
The problem of 'lack of system flexibility' associated with the continued use of older systems has already surfaced in the form of nearly half of online application claims. In this regard, Governor Murphy stated in a press conference on April 2 that 'I am aware that there are system delays, but I want you to wait patiently. Gold won't be lost for a cent. '
'In the mid-to-late 1990s, many retired COBOL programmers were rushed for the year 2000. As a result, COBOL-based systems could be deployed before maintenance problems became serious. The lesson that it needs to be replaced soon has become a common consensus across the industry, but the New Jersey government has failed to properly update its information systems, and once the pandemic is over, it will take place during the year 2000. Let's take another step back and update the outdated systems across the country, and waiting for more will cause another disaster, 'stresses the importance of updating systems. Did.
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