To like COBOL, you need to posess a particular kind of rigid corporate mindset. I wonder whether it's fathers/mothers had the mentioned physic structure, or it was a fruit of 50's salaryman mental subjugation. No offense ment.
Here's a 1959 computer, donated to a school in 1965. This was filmed in 1969. One of the children wrote a language - minigol - so the younger children didn't have to use assembler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1DtY42xEOI
Just turning the machine on requires coordination between several people using intercom.
2050: "To like Roar and Yavascript, you need to possess a particular kind of startup bro mindset, a fruit of a 10s ZIRP mental subjugation."
Well, Alan Kay already said it better. "Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it's living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from]..."