Europe (Score 1)

I am in my mid 20's and back when I was in college we had 3 years of Cobol, some Fortran 77 and 99 and quite a bit of AIX Unix on an RS-6000 (was a linux addict even before then). The main purpose was to provide good programmers for the millenium fix which affected quite a bit old finance programs on mainframes. The funny thing was that in my first year we only had 70 people starting in computer science (that was 1996). That summer newspapers started talking about the millenium problems that could occur and the amount of money companies were willing to spent in order to get their old software fixed. The next year they had over 300 applicants! I'm not sure what the situation in the US was at the time, but I assume more companies over there had already switched to WinNT and most universities had stopped teaching those ancient programming languages... Looks like I might be able to use those skills after all.