My day job is writing German COBOL, i.e. ABAP. The language changed a lot and is quite usable, except they don't have namespaces. But the worst is all of the cr

My day job is writing German COBOL, i.e. ABAP. The language changed a lot and is quite usable, except they don't have namespaces. But the worst is all of the cruft that accumulated. Not just of legacy code, but also in the language itself. So many different paradigms, old frameworks, everything is still working. On the other hand it is very high level for the job to be done. SQL can be directly embedded and there is a syntax check. There are a lot of integrated tools that are heaven and hell in the same time. The database migrations are so easy, but source code management, deployment is hell.