TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 8 15:33:26 PST 2016


On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 06:33:52PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 1/8/16 1:34 PM, 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.
> >
> 
> Who wants to work on systems that would use COBOL for a language?
[...]

Not me, but years ago a roommate of mine specifically went into COBOL
just so he could get job security working on COBOL-based legacy
mainframes.  I haven't kept in touch, however, so I don't know how that
actually turned out.


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