COBOL has fixed point maths built-in, ergo it's popularity in accounting and business applications. Most COBOL code is straightforward file "read-process-outpu

COBOL has fixed point maths built-in, ergo it's popularity in accounting and business applications. Most COBOL code is straightforward file "read-process-output". I could easily see a system that _generated_ COBOL code to do assigned tasks: the generator would maintain the database and a description of transformations. The developer would work at that level and never look at COBOL code. But someone's probably written such a system in COBOL!-)