I once had a boss who was an old Cobol Cowboy, he walked me through a financial system that's still in use. I can't help but feel that even back in the days, t

I once had a boss who was an old Cobol Cowboy, he walked me through a financial system that's still in use. I can't help but feel that even back in the days, they would have been better served by Pascal with fix point math. The only convenient features I could spot were related to working with records in files, and Pascal has that covered. Their Cobol implementation sort of, kind of supported subroutines but they were such a pain in the ass that code was usually copy-pasted instead. The only thing about Cobol that I just can't stand so far is the optional filler "keywords" that allows code to look sort of, kind of like natural language. That's just wrong.