Ask HN: How do I learn (real life) COBOL?
by unsupp0rted on Hacker News.
COBOL devs are a specialized niche these days and they get paid accordingly. I can learn COBOL from a book in general terms, but where would I practice with real-world legacy COBOL systems? It’s not as though I can do a COBOL side-project to learn… or can I? How does one go about learning COBOL in 2022 (from “scratch”, while already being a working dev) in order to niche down as a COBOL specialist dev?