Cobol Programmers a dying breed? Not quite yet...

[RealBlackStuff]

As a retired Cobol programmer (who loved it for about 30 years, and still does!), it was good to read this interesting post:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/art ... Id=9062478

Younger people who want to go into programming, should read this article, and perhaps add Cobol to their skill set!

These are/were my programming languages:
Cobol
Cobol II
Cobol MVS (IBM's Language Environment)
Microfocus-Cobol
Meta-Cobol
Delta-Cobol
Jackson-Cobol
Assembler
PL/1
REXX
And believe me, they came in dead handy for a contractor such as myself.
And they also pay a lot better than the likes of C, VB, Perl, Ajax or Java!

[t20user]

A good freind of mine is a COBOL programmer. He is 34 years old. I think he feels stuck in that realm of programming, but he has never been at a loss for work.

[rkawakami]

FORTRAN programmers rule! (Okay, no flame wars all right? )

<says Ray who used to use that language at NASA, Fairchild and Synertek>

[jdhurst]

FORTRAN programmers rule! <snip>

I have used a modest amount of Cobol and Assembly on mainframe-style computers, but I used Fortran extensively when I was a lot younger. The bridges in Toronto across Highway 401 were designed using a geometry program that I wrote much of and that was used to intersect clothoids, so that drawings could be accurately made. All done in Fortran on IBM 360 and 370 mainframes.

I used C on a personal computer to write a telecommunications program many years later that was widely used within GE Canada and to a lesser extent, very modestly in GE US.
... JDH