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It's surprisingly well adapted to web development too

http://www.coboloncogs.org/

If you have an existing COBOL app you can convert it to a web app and develop using a simpler syntax with more features through SystemZ from Zortec Intl. I've worked with them personally and they were super-duper.

COBOL isn't so bad when you use a modern variant that purposefully deals with many of the complaints surrounding it.

Yes, thanks for missing the joke.

No problem and glad to be of [di]service. I was familiar with the URL you posted, and probably should not have commented as a reply to you, but there you have it. :)

> COBOL isn't so bad when you use a modern variant that purposefully deals with many of the complaints surrounding it.

Isn't that basically how JavaScript took over the server space via node.js?

Cobol on Cogs has been superseded by the COBOL on Wheelchair framework:

https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair/blob/master/READ...

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