Did you also have to endure the era of `4GL` code generators that would produce COBOL code and marketed shortly as would make COBOL coders redundant? I worked

Did you also have to endure the era of `4GL` code generators that would produce COBOL code and marketed shortly as would make COBOL coders redundant? I worked at Eastern Electricity Board in the early 80's - No JSP there, but did work upon a new project that was object focused - using COBOL - no data dictionary overkill project, but saw what would normally be one program broken down into a main body that would link in lots of functions - which in themselves would be small contained COBOL programs. So one data input screen would see a program for each field type, instead of one large program and the main code would in effect be a skeleton that would link in the screen template and needed programs to handle those input/output data fields. Certainly the way forward in many ways, though COBOL perhaps not the most learning towards that. I liked JSP, but then that was how I was taught COBOL in education. Never really got to use it in anger due to legacy standards and other factors which alas made sense unless your doing greenfeild at the time.