Cobol code isn't esoteric, but it is designed in a way that is unambiguous and clear about its control flow, but very verbose and tedious to read/write. Transla

Cobol code isn't esoteric, but it is designed in a way that is unambiguous and clear about its control flow, but very verbose and tedious to read/write. Translating from Cobol to a modern programming language is trivial for LLMs for that reason because the lack of any hidden state functionalities like generics for example.