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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I was looking into learning COBOL some years ago, because i found that verbosity interesting.

And it seemed like there's not many libs and toolboxes out there, compared to the major languages that has libs for everything, so I couldn't really use it for small projects.

[–] connaisseur@feddit.org 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The issue with COBOL surely isn‘t about the language itself. The real challenge will be to decipher the spaghetti code that was created at a company in the last sixty or so years. And then to dare changing something without breaking the program as a whole.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

That's easy you just use the huge number of test cases to ensure against introducing new bugs.