I spent about 12 years developing on IBM mainframe in Assembler language... after Y2K, couldn’t find another job in it... and by then, I was behind the power curve in learning PC based languages... all of the options out there were overwhelming, and I ended up working for myself in the services industry.
Thanks for this post!... it helps me! I would like to get back into programming, but feel isolated by my lack of experience in PC based languages.
I saw a lot of ads in my area lately for COBOL, BAL, and PLI. The origin of the need was confidential but 5 will get you 10 it was American Airlines.
The Sabre core is still BAL based.
RE: Thanks for this post!... it helps me! I would like to get back into programming, but feel isolated by my lack of experience in PC based languages.
For less than 100 bucks a course, you can start from the basics and make yourself quite good in a few months.
Go to this site: http://www.udemy.com
If you’ve an assembly language background you may wish to look at “C” and embedded software devices (e.g. micro-controller boards, Raspberry Pi, etc.)