Re: COBOL
I'm 55 and when I was a lad we used C and looked down on COBOL as from the stone age. Now I appreciate that different languages are focused on different jobs. C is close to the hardware which is what you want when programming hardware. COBOL is about processing business data and assumes all the technical stuff about the machine it's running on has been handled already. Trying to write business software in C is horrendous because C can do almost nothing without a library. Calling library functions in C is messy.
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