COBOL and SQL are for different purposes, apples and oranges. One can’t be worse than the other. Programmers who have never seen or written COBOL should stop tr

COBOL and SQL are for different purposes, apples and oranges. One can’t be worse than the other. Programmers who have never seen or written COBOL should stop trotting it out as an example of bad. You’d be surprised how many important systems are written in COBOL, and how well-suited it is for the problem domains it was designed for.