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@NogDogOct 24.2012 — #To the best of my knowledge, there are very, very few (if any?) companies creating new applications using Cobol; so any jobs using it would be for maintenance of (old) existing programs, typically mainframe and/or client-server apps. If that sort of thing interests you, it could be a reasonably rewarding niche job for as long as those old legacy apps hang around.
If you're looking to learn programming languages that are going to be used for developing [i]new[/i] applications (or even just maintaining anything developed in the last decade or two), you're mostly looking at Java (not JavaScript) and C++/C#. PHP is a bit down on that list in general, though near the top in terms of web applications. My personal recommendation would be to not bother with Cobol unless you're truly interested in being strictly a maintenance developer (and probably for a continually shrinking market as the years go by).
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@NogDogOct 24.2012 — #To the best of my knowledge, there are very, very few (if any?) companies creating new applications using Cobol; so any jobs using it would be for maintenance of (old) existing programs, typically mainframe and/or client-server apps. If that sort of thing interests you, it could be a reasonably rewarding niche job for as long as those old legacy apps hang around.If you're looking to learn programming languages that are going to be used for developing [i]new[/i] applications (or even just maintaining anything developed in the last decade or two), you're mostly looking at Java (not JavaScript) and C++/C#. PHP is a bit down on that list in general, though near the top in terms of web applications. My personal recommendation would be to not bother with Cobol unless you're truly interested in being strictly a maintenance developer (and probably for a continually shrinking market as the years go by).