Discussion Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL? 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? 108 points unsupp0rted 4 years ago 143 comments
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?