Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40B during Covid: study

Don't forget the 360 assembly language. In the 2000s I know someone who made enough money to retire in Hawaii because he wrote printer drivers for the z-Architecture that scaled better than the print drivers from IBM in assembly language.

If you look at COBOL jobs you see a lot of them require you know 360 assembler because even after all these years it is common for z-Architecture apps to have some subroutines written in assembler which is a serious porting problem since you could otherwise switch to GNU COBOL on Linux or do a COBOL-to-Java translation or something.

Reminds me of the bad old days when it was normal to write inline assembler in Turbo Pascal, a decade ago I did work on some C++ code that used assembly for SIMD instructions though but if we were doing the same thing today we'd use Torch or Tensorflow or something.

Rubbish skills in Cobol =/= a rubbish IT system

Disappointingly narrow focus for such a poignant title.