I actually appreciate the fact that COBOL, while verbose, lets me scan the source code and get a general understanding of what it does. Just did a migration fr

I actually appreciate the fact that COBOL, while verbose, lets me scan the source code and get a general understanding of what it does. Just did a migration from a mainframe to Java microservices. We were lucky to have subject matter experts on hand so we didn't have to delve too much into the COBOL code. Used JHipster Domain Language Studio to quickly go from a Bachman diagram to an entity domain model. One quirk was that we were not permitted to use a modern UI; we had to emulate an IBM 3270 screen! The client ran out of money for retraining users so we had to do a lift-and-shift of the UI.