lack of comments, bad variable naming, bad structure (little or no procedures or readability), and just sheer volume of it This has nothing to do with technolo

lack of comments, bad variable naming, bad structure (little or no procedures or readability), and just sheer volume of it This has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with people. For all the progress we've made with technology in the past 50 years, we've made little or no progress with any of the items in this list. The second biggest problem building software has always been programmers too small for the task at hand. The biggest problem has been managers who are even smaller. So don't blame COBOL or any other technology. Fix the people and you can build anything excellent from almost any tech.