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I wrote a lot of COBOL "back in the day" (the 80's) and I don't think it would take me much effort to get back up to speed. So I think I can fairly count myself
by garyrob 5y ago
I wrote a lot of COBOL "back in the day" (the 80's) and I don't think it would take me much effort to get back up to speed. So I think I can fairly count myself as a COBOL programmer!
That being said, I like languages that came later much more, and absolutely would not choose to create a project today using it. I also wrote a lot of Pascal in the 80's, then moved to C/C++ and Python. Python is the language I've used the most in the 2000's, but now I'm studying Typescript, and think that is a perfectly fine language which I plan to use professionally. I've also studied OCaml and Rust and would absolutely choose the latter now for anything where efficiency was a prime requirement.