TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

[cym13 via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 18:34:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/7/2016 5:32 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:52 +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d 
>> wrote:
>>> Sure, COBOL is still around on some mainframe somewhere too, 
>>> but
>>> almost nobody knows it exists! :D
>> But those that do get £150k+ and almost all are over 60.
>
> I'm a little surprised that there aren't more young programmers 
> seeing that money and learning some COBOL. It's not a hard 
> language.

I think younger programmers are easily influenced by two things: 
school and trends. Cobol isn't taught in school anymore (AFAIK) 
and definitely isn't cool. You don't show up to a programmer 
meeting with your sticker-full mac and your overpriced headphones 
saying you are doing COBOL. It's not just that being trendy means 
social recognition, it's also that they fear that by coding in 
COBOL they'll be stuck with it all their life while by using the 
newest technologies they can justify trying a lot of them.

At least that's how I feel things are with the younger 
programmers around me.