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coldacid on May 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: It’s COBOL all the way down

>It will literally take you months to do something in COBOL on the mainframe that would normally take you a week in COBOL on anything else.

Fixed that for you.

wvenable on May 2, 2018 [–]

I disagree. COBOL itself as about as expressive as BASIC and twice as ugly.

The environment is also terrible but separating COBOL from the environment is pointless.

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