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The reality: I've never met a really wealthy COBOL programmer -- or rather, one who was wealthy because he/she knew COBOL. The pay is at the intersection of "k
by goatinaboat 6y ago
The reality: I've never met a really wealthy COBOL programmer -- or rather, one who was wealthy because he/she knew COBOL.
The pay is at the intersection of "knows COBOL" and "knows the problem domain inside out". The problem domains are not something most people would ever have been exposed to without getting in in the first place as COBOL programmers.
- the_af 6y agoI don't disagree with you. But note most people learning COBOL won't get those high-paying jobs; they'll instead end up maintaining legacy and boring corporate systems. And COBOL isn't a particularly interesting language to learn: in the spectrum between boring <--> cutting edge, COBOL lands on the far side of "very boring"!