>>> I bet you won't find much new development being done in COBOL. What
>>> work there is is maintenance of legacy systems. And I bet there hasn't
>>> been much of that since 1/1/2000.
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>Yeah, although I also bet you that those companies that still have occasional need for COBOL developers are paying a lot of money these days, because when they need a COBOL developer, they really NEED a COBOL developer. And there can't be a huge supply.
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>Maybe I need to dig up my COBOL skills :-)
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Now that would be like hitching a racehorse to a plow ;-)
I have worked with probably 8 or 10 languages, in varying degrees, and the only one I wasn't wild about was COBOL. It was great typing practice, though ;-) You start out on Monday morning and maybe by Wednesday you get to type PROCEDURE DIVISION.
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