COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) was designed by Grace Hopper to make it easier for business folks to write code. https://www.zdnet.com/article/cobol-

COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) was designed by Grace Hopper to make it easier for business folks to write code. https://www.zdnet.com/article/cobol-grace-hoppers-gift-to-the-world-of-business/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/cobol-grace-hoppers-gift-to-th... That goal a flop, so programmers had to take over. Wasn't there a Cucumber/Gherkin story here really recently? That grew out of Fit/Fitnesse (from Ward Cunningham of "tech debt" and "the wiki" fame), which was intended to have business folks write test cases to define how the delivered software would work. And as many people in the Cuke threads pointed out, Cuke fails, too. (As did Fitnesse.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitNesse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitNesse Bottom line: There is a ridiculous impedance mismatch between the business side of the house and engineering. Engineering attempts to create a programming language for MBAs is not a solution, but an expression of that mismatch.