<story><title>Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer</title><url>https://monadical.com/posts/cobol.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slowmotiony</author><text>Does anyone know of any good resources for learning basics of JCL, datasets, jobs, the z&amp;#x2F;OS Host and so on? I find that when I look at the screens of my mainframe colleagues, the COBOL code is actually the only thing I can wrap my head around, as opposed to all the weird mainframe tools built around it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer</title><url>https://monadical.com/posts/cobol.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>I suppose it&amp;#x27;s again that time of the year when there&amp;#x27;s a flood of articles trying to convince people that COBOL is worth learning, that it&amp;#x27;s been updated or that it pays really well, and that there are lots of hidden opportunities for you to make big money working with COBOL!&lt;p&gt;Those of us who actually worked with COBOL aren&amp;#x27;t fooled though. It bears repeating: COBOL is a horrible language and it&amp;#x27;s often used in legacy banking systems. Learn it at your own peril, especially when there are way more interesting languages and jobs out there.</text></comment>