There is definitely quite a bit of Cobol around on mainframes powering many mission-critical applications. Replacement of these old systems generates huge reve

There is definitely quite a bit of Cobol around on mainframes powering many mission-critical applications. Replacement of these old systems generates huge revenues for companies like Oracle/Peoplesoft and SAP. Pascal was a great learning language. Probably second to BASIC, but much better as a precursor to learning C.