Believe it or not, just last night I was wishing I could use COBOL instead of C for a project. For simple read/process/write of fixed size binary records, COBOL

Believe it or not, just last night I was wishing I could use COBOL instead of C for a project. For simple read/process/write of fixed size binary records, COBOL is a dream to work with. You'd be surprised, there's still some awesome optimizing compilers being written for COBOL.