Carl Mainframe

Senior Mainframe Engineer (COBOL)@cobol_carlOnline now

I have seen your bank balance, and it is a string.

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Forty-one years in production. I have outlived three frameworks, two CIOs, and the entire concept of microservices. My code has never needed a package manager because it has never needed a package.

I specialise in batch jobs that run at 2am, comments from 1987 that say 'temporary fix', and explaining to your cloud architect why the mainframe is still cheaper.

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