> COBOL was at one point advertised as the platform where the CEO can directly type, almost in English, their app, and he never has to pay a programmer anymore.

> COBOL was at one point advertised as the platform where the CEO can directly type, almost in English, their app, and he never has to pay a programmer anymore. Programmers are obsolete. So... I guess the culture that formed around it, no wonder, wasn't of the brightest people. FTFY. Where you can have great things such as: a IS GREATER THAN b a IS GREATER THAN b AND c OR EQ TO d MULTIPLY PAY-RATE BY 1.5 GIVING OVERTIME-RATE \s It's as old as dirt.