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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth becoming a COBOL engineer? by DrScump on Sunday March 19, 2017 @05:37PM (#13909788)
One question is: how far has COBOL been extended, if at all, with modern features? Other languages have evolved to add features from (or benefits of lessons learned in) other languages -- has COBOL? (I honestly don't know; I stopped working in COBOL in 1986, and that environment generally required writing code backward-compatible with the ANS 1974 standard).

Generally, there is a risk of being pigeonholed when working in an "old" technology, so be observant of that.

Re:Ask HN: Is it worth becoming a COBOL engineer? by jetti on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:38AM (#13915062)
COBOL 2002 has object orientation. I'm not sure how much it is used, but it has it.