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I know COBOL. Maybe I should switch jobs...
https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-way-down/
@starbreaker I've spent the best part of the past 20 years trying to forget that I ever knew COBOL. On the evening of 31st December 1999, unable to drink as I was on call, I wished I'd never even heard of it.
@shivvi I spent nine years maintaining a Visual Basic 6 desktop app. COBOL can't be much worse.
@starbreaker Can't argue with that either. OTOH at least VB has proper number manipulation.
@starbreaker enough to give one nightmares.
@shivvi I stared into the abyss. The abyss stared back. But, eventually, the abyss averted its gaze.
@starbreaker saves blushes and awkward silences that way.
@shivvi Not when the codebase was originally created by a COBOL guy who declares every variable globally in an application meant to handle muncipal tax assessment.
And it didn't have proper error handling, either. You had to use a GOTO.