I've never seen a mainframe, I don't really even know what one is or why anyone would use one. I'd think that's the main reason, but if you want to go past that, there's pretty much nothing appealing about working on legacy code in ancient languages with people 40 years older than me. I can't imagine COBOL experience looks particularly good on a resume nowadays when you want to leave the mainframe world.
Agree that I would not love working with 40 years older COBOL programmers. However, I for sure would love to work with 40 years older lispers or smalltalkers.
I am wondering if in 40 years from now, youngsters would love (or not) to work with [ruby|java|js|nodejs] programmers.
