I haven't written cobol since late 90s-early 2k... But my experiences were just the opposite. If you need to write accounting software, COBOL is a pretty painl

I haven't written cobol since late 90s-early 2k... But my experiences were just the opposite. If you need to write accounting software, COBOL is a pretty painless way to do it. Add in something like automatic copybooks from DDL in file metadata (like the OS/400 supported) and it was great never having to worry about people forgetting to update record layouts. the result was you could knock out your typical accounting stuff fairly quickly..