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COBOL is just a different "styled" language than the Algol family of languages. It is fashionable to dunk on it because of its english-like verbosity which is q
by rramadass 3y ago
COBOL is just a different "styled" language than the Algol family of languages. It is fashionable to dunk on it because of its english-like verbosity which is quite alien to Programmers who initially came from a mathematical background and hence were used to succinct notation. You just have to get used to it. My first job (decades ago on a mainframe) was in COBOL-85 and i found it fine particularly in its strong File handling capabilities which i used to build a simple RDBMS-like system.
You might want to peruse the wikipedia article just to see what it offers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL