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4 30 Sep 2016 12:52 u/brownja in v/programmingComment on: These Are the Highest-Paying Programming Languages (do you agree?)
Not even close folks. RPG blows c++ out of the water.
Not even close folks. RPG blows c++ out of the water.
I started out using FORTRAN. My mentor at the time said "don't ever learn COBOL".
His reasoning was that it would be too easy to get a job doing boring and stupid business programming and that I'd never do anything interesting again.
He was right. I didn't learn COBOL, but RPG instead (it's like COBOL without vowels). I've been making a good, easy, living for almost 30 years, but it is boring.