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Originally Posted by DNSB
I have horrible memories of JCL. Going from a simple UNIX command line to having to use JCL was as bad as going from coding in WatFor to coding in COBOL.
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And what, may I ask, is wrong with COBOL?
I thought it was pretty cool how you could say things like "ADD YEARS TO AGE" rather than something like "age = age + years" which other languages used.
One language that I really struggled with was RPG; getting everything in the right column was always a chore.