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by NoGravitas 1353 days ago
> I've seen Cobol developers just ignoring the latency, keeping typing because they know what they've typed and it doesn't matter that it's slow to show up on screen.

I used to do that (not in COBOL), typing into a text editor in a terminal over a 2400-baud modem. Like the other commenter said, you get used to it, but it requires a certain predictability in your environment that you don't get in modern GUIs.