Timeline for How to attract people to work on very old and outdated technologies?
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| Jul 13, 2018 at 7:44 | comment | added | user29390 | And give the clients a projection for the increasing cost of maintaining their legacy systems together with an offer for refactoring it. | |
| Jul 6, 2018 at 6:49 | comment | added | Donald | Working with legacy programming languages can also be a benefit. I have to deal with IBM JCL and Fortran 77 daily. However, I am doing things I didn't think was possible, they are actually very versatile. I am a better programmer due to introduction to those languages. | |
| Jul 4, 2018 at 18:28 | comment | added | Mike Harris | "negative effect on their career" is a good point to bring up. Some developers won't want to work on projects strictly because of the work, but because of what future employers will see on their CV. | |
| Jul 4, 2018 at 17:34 | history | answered | A E | CC BY-SA 4.0 |