Here is my suggestion, but I am not sure it is doable as I never used COBOL in my life: can you write a program that would compile Ruby (or whatever new languag

Here is my suggestion, but I am not sure it is doable as I never used COBOL in my life: can you write a program that would compile Ruby (or whatever new language you want to learn) into COBOL? If you can pull it off that would save you lots of time. And you can start by programming something to generate small pieces of COBOL for you, and then expand that program...