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Banks and Social Security are not using #COBOL because it’s so great, but because it’s so hard to migrate to something else.

They should and do migrate away … very slowly and carefully.

(I‘m in banking.)

I don’t dislike COBOL. I program daily in #ABAP, which looks like a COBOL dialect. I don’t mind verbosity, verbosity increases readability and debuggability. No devs? Train some. But COBOL developers tell me it has serious limitations. It’s just old.

Cleaned some old #abap code today so I could see and read it. Why do people comment code with "I was here" comments, that say nothing?

E.g. "for FW254" what's that supposed to mean? I suppose it may have been a ticket number in a long dead ticketing system, but today it's just "I was here"...

Also why comment out code instead of deleting it, some code is now more commented out than live code. Impossible to read.