I'm ashamed to admit that I actually have a qualification in COBOL, obtained many many years ago. Even at the time it was a dead/obsolete language. Some COBOL

I'm ashamed to admit that I actually have a qualification in COBOL, obtained many many years ago. Even at the time it was a dead/obsolete language. Some COBOL programmers were employed in the last few years of the 20th century in order to combat the largely fictitious Y2K menace. There was a point at which I could have joined that particular bandwagon, and I probably would have had considerable earnings for a couple of years. But I knew enough about COBOL that I didn't want to be anywhere within a barge pole prodding distance of it. COBOL is a language which was probably incredibly appropriate and highly useful within the culture and technological infrastructure of the 1960s/70s. If a company advertises that it's still using COBOL or Visual Basic 6 then this says to me that they're not interested in innovation, and that for someone like me working there would be like doing the coding equivalent of a jail sentence.