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> For example, I'm sure that most people are not aware that COBOL has generics, method overloading, declarative error/exception handling, asynchronous messaging
by le-mark 4y ago
> For example, I'm sure that most people are not aware that COBOL has generics, method overloading, declarative error/exception handling, asynchronous messaging, etc.
It is interesting, but the reality is the vast majority of cobol in the world is the 85 standard. And although the 2022 standard may have some nice features, the language is simply too verbose; similar to Visual Basic vs c#.