What makes COBOL such a hated language?stackoverflow.com 4 pointsralphchurch13 years ago2 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−giardini13yThey missed COBOL's fixed-point math, which is unmatched in any other language and makes accounting a breeze and its fixed-length strings, which significantly enhances performance and make green screen/HTML layout easy.−russell13yI wrote a production COBOL program in 1967. I swore that I would never write another one. So far I've managed to avoid it.
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They missed COBOL's fixed-point math, which is unmatched in any other language and makes accounting a breeze and its fixed-length strings, which significantly enhances performance and make green screen/HTML layout easy.
I wrote a production COBOL program in 1967. I swore that I would never write another one. So far I've managed to avoid it.