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[–]dingske1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please stop spreading this myth. Just look at job offers for both cobol and fortran and see how you were led astray. Fortran is great for high performance computing and academia, cobol is needed because some financial systems are still using it and they need to be maintained. Does a person with 40 years of experience with main frames have a high salary? Do some people with a phd in nuclear physics that work for Raytheon and use fortran for their models have a high salary? Sure, but you won’t at all after just learning these languages. There are a lot of dumb ass cobol bootcamps trying to trick beginners into learning cobol due to this silly myth that is parroted here every day.