On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:37:01 -0500, Aled Hughes <aledlhug...@aol.com> wrote:
>According to the UK's Daily Mail, COBOL programmers are commanding 'big money' >especially some of the retired ones. I suspect some of the so-called salaries >are contractor rated. £50,000 (about US $76K) works out at less than £200 a >day. The actual going rate seems to be about £400 a day absolute maximum, but >this is about what was being offered over 20 years back. As usual, I suspect that the article has been written by a person who cannot even spell 'mainframe'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2863570/Out-retirement-experts-programming-1950s.html According to the TIOBE report on the popularity of programming languages COBOL has moved up from 26 to 13th place in the last year, almost a 1% increase in popularity. Popularity is measured in terms of internet searches, not necessarily reflective of an increased demand, but I still find it intriguing. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
