While an actual COBOL is likely to more an oddity and emergency tool for ancient banks.
On the other hand, there is a time to really look at COBOL, the work-horse of a generation, and ask the important question: “What did it do right that we can steal?”
His joke lost me when he essentially said “I hate syntax so much I want to invent a new language with even more syntax! And I want that syntax to be even harder to learn and reason about!”
There’s stuff we should take from COBOL. Its syntax, however, is an experiment which failed.
While an actual COBOL is likely to more an oddity and emergency tool for ancient banks.
On the other hand, there is a time to really look at COBOL, the work-horse of a generation, and ask the important question: “What did it do right that we can steal?”
https://wordsandbuttons.online/if_i_were_to_invent_a_programming_language_for_the_21st_century.html
His joke lost me when he essentially said “I hate syntax so much I want to invent a new language with even more syntax! And I want that syntax to be even harder to learn and reason about!”
There’s stuff we should take from COBOL. Its syntax, however, is an experiment which failed.