On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 18:34:54 UTC, 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.
I think younger programmers are easily influenced by two things:
school and trends. Cobol isn't taught in school anymore (AFAIK)
and definitely isn't cool. You don't show up to a programmer
meeting with your sticker-full mac and your overpriced headphones
saying you are doing COBOL. It's not just that being trendy means
social recognition, it's also that they fear that by coding in
COBOL they'll be stuck with it all their life while by using the
newest technologies they can justify trying a lot of them.
At least that's how I feel things are with the younger
programmers around me.
