I worked in COBOL in the early 80s and despite its bad reputation, I found it was well-suited for the tasks I was asked to perform with it. (Compared to the oth

I worked in COBOL in the early 80s and despite its bad reputation, I found it was well-suited for the tasks I was asked to perform with it. (Compared to the other languages I knew at the time: C, BASIC, Fortran and Pascal) Interestingly, the thing I liked best about COBOL was the PIC clause, which was actually a notation for formatted output. It beat the hell out of printf, that's for sure.