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> Old-style COBOL translates trivially to or from very brain-dead imperative style code with lots of goto. Provided the target language supports "goto", and "f
by marktangotango 6y ago
> Old-style COBOL translates trivially to or from very brain-dead imperative style code with lots of goto.
Provided the target language supports "goto", and "fall through PERFORMs" :)
>If you can look past the syntax, modern COBOL is a decent enough compiled language, with most of the stuff you'd expect.
Probably < 1% of production Cobol uses any syntax newer than Cobol 85!