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I did mainframe COBOL for a few years in the 90’s (Y2K fixes). It’s actually not that difficult - I could probably bring a Java developer up to speed on it in
by commandlinefan 7y ago
I did mainframe COBOL for a few years in the 90’s (Y2K fixes). It’s actually not that difficult - I could probably bring a Java developer up to speed on it in less than a month. COBOL is actually extremely easy to program in, but it’s also limited in its expressiveness, so you end up repeating yourself a lot, which leads to complex debugging sessions.