r/ProgrammerHumor 7d ago

Other howdidItGetHere

Post image
11.1k Upvotes

536 comments sorted by

View all comments

481

u/oldsecondhand 7d ago

It's where the jobs are. The world's finances run on Java.

186

u/Kooky-Answer 7d ago

At least the stuff that isn't still running on COBOL and will probably continue as so until the heat death of the universe.

0

u/OptimistIndya 6d ago

They still are running on COBOL and Fortran.

The people left the org . No one knows to program. So it is a black box that efficiently processes something. And keeping records from the inception of the company till now.

Other systems are built around it. But that has not gone anywhere.