COBOL does well at what it is designed to do. Don't write an operating system in COBOL. Don't write business logic in Assembly Language or C. Or not. It's a

COBOL does well at what it is designed to do. Don't write an operating system in COBOL. Don't write business logic in Assembly Language or C. Or not. It's a free world. Do what you want. But the purpose of COBOL isn't to show off your hot coding chops. No No. That's why ${DEITY} invented Lisp. COBOL is intended to clearly communicate how data is to be processed for business applications. And it does that reasonably well.