Interesting Answer about Programming Skills

I was puttering around Twitter and found a question:

What is the best programming to focus on?

 I clicked to the web page found the usual responses -- the Java guys recommending Java, the .NET guys recommending C#, some recommending C++ (used by Google). But one struck my fancy. It was a recommendation for COBOL:

Actually, if you want a secure job for life, learn COBOL. Most of the banking applications still use COBOL, and are likely to continue doing so.

Very interesting response. Here is a language thought dead by many of the young programmers today (if they even know what it is), but still in use in real-life business situations.