Only very old editions of COBOL were pre-procedural. Not saying I would want to learn it "for fun". The only fun I had was trying to calculate in Input/Output s

Only very old editions of COBOL were pre-procedural. Not saying I would want to learn it "for fun". The only fun I had was trying to calculate in Input/Output storage (must be treated as write-only...) or maybe the many ways you could format your numbers. Modern Cobol could even be bearable (while wordy) but the environment in which it is normally used absolutely not: JCL lacks any unixy feel and everything on OS/390 is it's own special tool. Lucky if you even got DB2, not so lucky when having to do with VSAM...