Comment on Ask Hacker News: Picking code for mainframe jobsComments−edw51918yCOBOL: Too much overheadPL/I: Not as much demandFORTRAN: Too specializedC/C++: Go for it. You will be doing stuff that you may never do again with other languages. But that's OK. You'll have a better understanding of what's going on "under the hood".
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COBOL: Too much overhead
PL/I: Not as much demand
FORTRAN: Too specialized
C/C++: Go for it. You will be doing stuff that you may never do again with other languages. But that's OK. You'll have a better understanding of what's going on "under the hood".