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I didn't mind COBOL as a language (but it was overly verbose), it was the JCL to set it up and kick it off that drove me nuts.
by vparikh 9y ago
I didn't mind COBOL as a language (but it was overly verbose), it was the JCL to set it up and kick it off that drove me nuts.
- dingaling 9y agoOh boy, JCL... we had a couple of JCL gurus who understood it but the rest of is just kept hacking away at existing templates. And CICS. But even worse than those two was a 1980s IBM business language called CSP ( Cross-System Product ). If you can imagine COBOL with all its limited expressiveness removed. I used to be elated when I opened a member and found it to be COBOL or C rather than CSP.