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The problem with this article is the same as with every article about COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG, Mainframes etc:

  The assumption that it is only 50+ year old legacy code running on dependable 
  but obsolete hardware, untouched by human hands in decades is wrong. 

In reality, much of it is new. COBOL shops still develop new software. IBM still makes brand new mainframes. The developers are not all old men in suits, they look pretty much like C++ or Java (or any other established tech) programmers: all ages. That may look old to you because you're biased to think of programmers as males aged 20 to 35.

By the way, I'm not saying it doesn't suck. It's not something I ever intend to do in my life again.