My first language was SPS and then Autocoder for the first IBM computer, the 1401’s. Yah back in the 60’s. Last 17 years before I retired was COBOL. Great language. Co. DMV wanted a GUI interface and started a conversion process to get off COBOL. 1st attempt failed and have no idea if they ever got it converted.
I hung around for a while and could see it was headed for disaster so I decided to retire. COBOL rocks.
Hey, me too! Did you do CICS programming? I loved it. I bet there’s lots of it still around. I could make CICS and COBOL sit up and beg! These days I work for Oracle writing design documents, and young guys and gals in India turn it into some kind of code. I miss knowing all the tech stuff.
With all the COBOL love flowing here, let’s take a second to remember that great comptuer pioneer, Admiral Grace Hopper, the mother of COBOL (and finder of the first literal computer bug and the one who first implemented language standards). It may look antiquated now, but it was revolutionary in the 60s.