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CODASYL (Conference on Data Systems Languages) created COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) so that non-technical managers could read code. In that respect, COBOL was a big win.
<p>Yeah, it's wordy ("Copy Of BASIC Only Longer"), but there's still a use for it. Same with RPG, Assembler, FORTRAN, etc.
<p>Of course, as a scripting language, COBOL probably wouldn't cut it.
<P>DISPLAY "JUST ANOTHER COBOL HACKER" AT COLUMN 20 ROW 13.
<P>Of course, in 20 or 30 years, people will probably be laughing at VB, C, Delphi, perl, Tk, linux, etc.
<p>Just my $0.02
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