>but it’s important to note to anyone reading this that learning COBOL is not going to lead to riches: I know several COBOL coders and while they make a respect

>but it’s important to note to anyone reading this that learning COBOL is not going to lead to riches: I know several COBOL coders and while they make a respectable amount, it’s nowhere near the amount they’d earn at a FANG company. This goes along really great with the closing paragraph of the article: >That’s the new generation of COBOL programmers that we need: people to do the tedious, unglamorous work of re-inventing, re-engineering, and automating government applications, business applications, and much more. Reimagining these processes is creative work, but it requires a different kind of creativity from implementing a new website. Gee, why is it that people are trying to hard to get into FAANGs rather than learning COBOL.