As someone who learned COBOL in British college in the late 1980's, I can confirm that the language was/is quite readable and accessible. I still have the COBOL textbook from back then; Andrew Parkin, COBOL For Students, second edition, ISBN 0-7131-3477-1
I distinctly remember at the time really enjoying learning to code in it - it spoke to my logical-thinking (but quite young) brain a lot.
However, after college, for whatever reason I didn't use that COBOL knowledge at all. If only I knew then what I know today - that COBOL is still somewhat in demand and that if only I kept in with it over the years, I could quite probably have made quite a good living from it.
I distinctly remember at the time really enjoying learning to code in it - it spoke to my logical-thinking (but quite young) brain a lot.
However, after college, for whatever reason I didn't use that COBOL knowledge at all. If only I knew then what I know today - that COBOL is still somewhat in demand and that if only I kept in with it over the years, I could quite probably have made quite a good living from it.
Young me was quite naive and silly ;)