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by simonblack 1399 days ago
Much as we denigrate COBOL, that is still its greatest advantage. Yes, it's wordy, yes it's old. Yes, it needs to be really updated. But it's still easier for a new hire to understand the COBOL old code than any other old code.
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I've never had any problem digging into any Python codebase.

Even magic stuff like `@attributes` is easily searchable.