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title: "Top 5 Legacy Skills in Demand"
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# Top 5 Legacy Skills in Demand

Here the legacy skills still in demand.

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## 5 Top Legacy Skills

1. COBOL- One of the powerful language still being used in many financial projects
2. MAINFRAME- Powerful systems, still being used, also suitable for handling big data
3. C- Most popular language. Current days languages Python and PHP adopted many features from C.
4. Fortran- Still being used in all scientific applications
5. JAVA- Java is 20 years old language.  Still being used with all modern applications.

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- [PLI Presentation for Mainframe Programmers](https://srinimf.com/2015/06/14/pli-presentation-for-mainframe-programmers/)DateJune 14, 2015
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