>>>As late as 1993, the kids in some high schools around here, were, as part of the "knowing computers" curriculum, learning Cobol.
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>Smart move: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227263/The_Cobol_Brain_Drain?taxonomyId=154
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>According to last year's Computerworld survey, 64% of respondents said their organization still used Cobol- more than any prevalent languages except Java and VB6. In 2013 the smartest career choice may well be Cobol with its very highly paid jobs and avoidance of all those risks in the rest of the bleeding edge market.

Know what, if it comes to that, I'd probably write a little cobol generator in Fox and mask it as an editor... and spend most of my time perfecting my metadata and playing slow games.

Shit, no, they forbid smoking on the job. I'll keep working from home.