[cynwoody]

Ten years ago, coders over 45 were much more vulnerable, because they tended to be more into older languages, like COBOL and C++, which were beginning to lose share in favor of Java and .NET.

Java and .NET are the Cobol of today. And, as for C++, give Objective C a whirl first. Steve did. It's behind that X in OS X.

If you sincerely want to avoid Cobol, you should really should go back to 1958. If the parens put you off, consider JavaScript, Lua, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Scala.

[dfwgator]

I like Scala a lot. Eventually the Java language won’t even be the language of choice people will write for JVMs. I like Ruby as a language as well.