Sure, when I first started my professional programming career, I worked in a couple of COBOL shops. Most of the developers there had never used anything else, a

Sure, when I first started my professional programming career, I worked in a couple of COBOL shops. Most of the developers there had never used anything else, and weren't interested in anything else. It was a job. Almost all of the programs were some form of "read data from a file, do something with each record, write it back to another file or print to a report." Not much different from assembly line work except more comfortable and paid better.