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The author missed that COBOL is still being revised, nowadays has support for OOP programing, and visual IDE support.

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv...

Think positive, at least it isn't RPG, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG

There have been COBOL IDEs since at least back when I learned it in college, 20 years ago, which will improve the lives of any COBOL developer, but I imagine many places that are still stuck using COBOL are likely stuck on an earlier version that doesn't support OOP. If they never got past COBOL-80, they didn't even have a switch statement!

That wouldn't surprise me, there are after all plenty of places still using Java 1.4, C89, ...

Heh. My first paid programming job was RPG II, eight hours a day, five days a week, for two and a half years. :-D

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