COBOL

How do I get good at COBOL?
I want a comfy job.

Too late for that.

Many decades too late for that. This isn't 1957 anymore.

>>3
There are still people maintaining legacy systems though

But what is the longevity of a profession like that?

>>5
Not very long.

the trick is to look for jobs in fintech, banks etc. they have a need for COBOL programmers but they generally don't expect new hires to know COBOL - so it might be possible to migrate to COBOL programming internally and learn from ancient masters who have become one with the mainframe

C++ is where it's at right now. If you can re-leverage your Lisp/Scheme and Haskell higher-order macro and algebraic type system skills in the form of C++ template/sfinae/constraint programming to get pattern matching through overload resolution and you aren't shit at library design, you can pull a good six figure income.

>>8
Aktshually
Java is where it's at

>>3
Damn

I would have liked to program in COBOL and work for Bell Labs. But I was born too late.

>>8

C++

NO THANK YOU