At the college I'm currently attending one of the required classes for the Computer Science majors is COBOL programming as well as RPG programming and Fortran 90. Fortran 90 I can almost understand but who still uses COBOL and RPG when there are "better" database applications in the world now. I'm in the middle of COBOL now having already finished RPG but I can't for the life of me invision how this is better than a MySQL dbase with a well crafted PHP script gathering info. I guess I'm asking is: "Does anyone currently use this in their job and do they plan to continue using it through the next year or two?"