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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 12 points 4 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 4 months ago

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