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Not having worked with COBOL in about 10 years, the critiques I have of it (from memory) are virtually identical to some modern languages I still have to work w
by zwerdlds 9y ago
Not having worked with COBOL in about 10 years, the critiques I have of it (from memory) are virtually identical to some modern languages I still have to work with daily.
It's
- Too structured.
- Poor tooling.
- Whitespace sensitivity.
- No first-class functions.
But the article is right - if these same standards were applied to today's languages, things would be a lot louder.