If you are interested, here are insights from making a COBOL to C# compiler: https://github.com/otterkit/otterkit-cobol/issues/40
I am now convinced that COBOL is just a high level assembler.
In fairness, I think to some extent everything was just a high level assembler in its day, and then it never changed:)
In fairness, I think to some extent everything was just a high level assembler in its day, and then it never changed:)