Oh yes, COBOL was C's evil twin in that regard. It depended what circles you travelled in - engineering depts or IT depts. I remember posting the c2 wiki page

Oh yes, COBOL was C's evil twin in that regard. It depended what circles you travelled in - engineering depts or IT depts. I remember posting the c2 wiki pages for XP on my cube wall when XP first came out, and had a Gantt-chart oriented systems engineer tear them down as dangerous nonsense.