> On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 12:22:22 PM PDT, Bob Bridges
> <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I reluctantly admit that COBOL has important strengths
> ("reluctant" only because I have a deep dislike of verbosity in coding),
> But there are tasks for which I like PL/1, or VBA, or REXX (or ooRexx), and
> so on.
Business is not about the languages we like or dislike. Cobol's biggest benefit
for the business is that there is very little to learn. Ever notice that
learning the language is far more interesting than learning about the business
problems? Does anyone doubt they couldn't easily rewrite Twitter in Cobol on
z/OS? Twitter isn't more complicated than banking software. Cobol forces you to
focus on the business instead of computers. PL/1, VBA, REXX, JavaScript, HTML
are far more interesting than the needs of the business.
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