At my last job they had a custom variant of COBOL and hey I don’t know why everyone is playing it down. It was beautiful. You could make a full GUI form with fu

At my last job they had a custom variant of COBOL and hey I don’t know why everyone is playing it down. It was beautiful. You could make a full GUI form with full validations in like only a few lines of code. Like a whole tax form is how you’d do a Hello world. And then we ported the runtime to render web pages over a web socket and that’s when things got really interesting. 20+ MLOC of legacy apps rendering directly to the web. It’s such a flexible language and I absolutely enjoyed working on the run time and the other guys in the company really enjoyed writing in it.