@W.S.Gosset -- Re: poor tools can't be blamed?....sure, sure, suurrrrre
And COBOL was (is! surprisingly enough. COBOL.net is a real thing) great for what it was designed for: file processing. Anything else, and... eurgh.
Back in the day, I knew someone who wrote a printer driver in COBOL, because...well, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It worked...ish. But as you say...eurgh!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
