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Except COBOL often is the right answer for text processing now, meets all your criteria (debugger, IDE, maintainable, etc) and far more mature than Go, Python,
by kjs3 7y ago
Except COBOL often is the right answer for text processing now, meets all your criteria (debugger, IDE, maintainable, etc) and far more mature than Go, Python, Rust or D (really...D?).
- smt88 7y agoCOBOL is the wrong tool for any new job now because hardly anyone knows it.
- kjs3 7y agoWhich could be said about any newly fashionable language. Or any niche language. And in the case of COBOL, it's not even true. Here's a little hint: just because you don't know any COBOL programmers, doesn't mean they don't exist. My own company has a couple of hundred, and we have an outsourcing partner that has a several thousand. We are not unique.