Are the cobol devs from the past the equivalent of the modern day vbs and excel script persons? No, they were writing the typical corporate applications - an i

Are the cobol devs from the past the equivalent of the modern day vbs and excel script persons? No, they were writing the typical corporate applications - an interface to enter data into a database, or to run a query and generate some nicely formatted output. They were the equivalent of a modern day webdev.