>>Functions? Sensible limited variable scope? A decent approach to handling whitespace so that complex, nested branches make sense? COBOL doesn't even have thes

>>Functions? Sensible limited variable scope? A decent approach to handling whitespace so that complex, nested branches make sense? COBOL doesn't even have these basics. >>Want to declare a variable? You're gonna have to type weird stuff like this: `07 GreatVariableName PIC X(10).` I am experiencing this hateful pain and suffering right now. And the previous maintainers hated it too and cut and paste stuff in and out and the files are ~10k lines long and trying to track where a variable has changed, only to find that it depends on another two or more variables, and then trying to track those... Don't do it folks.