>>In 2010, a COBOL programmer developed a rare fatal disease for which there was no known cure. The programmer was cryogenically frozen, to be revived when a cure had been found.
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>>In the year 9999, the programmer is revived. When he wakes up, he asks the doctors what year it is, and when they tell him, he asks if they finally found a cure for his disease. They answered, "We're sorry, but no, we still haven't found a cure. But it's almost the year 10,000, you see, and you know COBOL..."
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>Look what i found:
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>Stafdienst P&O - AUTP | FOD Financiën © 2012 (A new COBOL development)

I wonder if I'd get to write the programs on coding sheets then send them to the ladies down in the PCK unit to key onto punch cards then when they put it in the internal post back to me I can wrap it in a job control form pop it in the van up to the computer centre (other end of the country) so they can run it overnight and then post me back the results. And i'd either get (a). results (b) a core dump printed on about 4 inches stacked of paper (c) nothing but the cards and the run control sheet with the equivalent of "you are an idiot" scribbled on it by a harassed computer operator.