Rameez Nooruddin

COBOL programmers can be found here

Jeff Atwood in his blog entry COBOL: Everywhere and Nowhere wonders why he hasn’t met any COBOL programmers even though it’s one of the most-used programming languages in the world:

I have a hard time reconciling this data point with the fact that I have never, in my entire so-called “professional” programming career, met anyone who was actively writing COBOL code. That probably says more about my isolation as a programmer than anything else, but still. I find the whole situation a bit perplexing. If these 220 billion lines of COBOL code are truly running out there somewhere, where are all the COBOL programmers? Did they write software systems so perfect, so bug-free, that all these billions of lines of code are somehow maintaining themselves without the need for legions and armies of COBOL programmers, decades later?

If so, that’s a mighty impressive feat.

Of course you won’t find COBOL programmers showing off their skills at some fancy conferences or even on the Internet. Unlike those Web 2.0 RoR and AJAX kiddies, they don’t boast about their skills. But they do exist. Tucked away in the cubicles of IT outsourcing vendors in India, you’ll find several diligent COBOL mavericks scratching their heads and straining their eyes at those green terminals performing all sorts of jugaad.

Come to India.