> Of course COBOL had comments. Funny anecdote about this. I used to work on a relatively old (early 1980s) COBOL and PL/1 codebase. Code was obviously a mess,

> Of course COBOL had comments. Funny anecdote about this. I used to work on a relatively old (early 1980s) COBOL and PL/1 codebase. Code was obviously a mess, as most of the files were written by non devs, and hardly had any comments. There was this one though, that started with something like "this code handles currency conversions, and the author is long gone now; no one understands it, but if you need to modify it, please be aware that you may break all the business logic the bank relies on". Code was modified once, in the late 90s, to support some Euro and Y2K oddities. No one else dared to touch it afterwards.