On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 06:33:52PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 1/8/16 1:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > >On 1/7/2016 5:32 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: > >>On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:52 +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote: > >>>Sure, COBOL is still around on some mainframe somewhere too, but > >>>almost nobody knows it exists! :D > >>But those that do get £150k+ and almost all are over 60. > > > >I'm a little surprised that there aren't more young programmers > >seeing that money and learning some COBOL. It's not a hard language. > > > > Who wants to work on systems that would use COBOL for a language? [...]
Not me, but years ago a roommate of mine specifically went into COBOL just so he could get job security working on COBOL-based legacy mainframes. I haven't kept in touch, however, so I don't know how that actually turned out. T -- Freedom of speech: the whole world has no right *not* to hear my spouting off!
