I learned COBOL in college just to learn it, and I loved the verbosity of it. Verbosity was kind of the point: if you name your variables properly, you have se

I learned COBOL in college just to learn it, and I loved the verbosity of it. Verbosity was kind of the point: if you name your variables properly, you have self-documenting code. Yes, the processing COBOL does is restricting, but then my first full-time programming job was two and a half years writing RPG II code. COBOL would have been an upgrade.