My Dad told me that I should learn COBOL because there are so many businesses running on COBOL software, yet not many people are maintaining it.
Though I always wanted to write a full-length video game in a language that was totally not intended for it, so I'll take that into consideration.
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@xianc78 Programming languages are not hard to learn. If a business needs someone who knows COBOL anyone they already have can learn it
@frost COBOL requires you to know some other language (JCL) in order to use it, assuming you are using it on IBM mainframes.
@xianc78 So? Same principle applies
@frost But it means more time for learning and less time for working.
@xianc78 If you had the choice of training an existing engineer for a few days vs. hiring an entirely new employee for one task, which would you choose?
@frost The problem with COBOL is that a lot of people who wrote those old COBOL programs for businesses are either retired or dead, and the software is too crucial to be replaced with some modern cloud solution.