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by skissane 331 days ago
Contemporary COBOL (the most recent ISO standard is from 2023) has all those things and more.

Rather than rejecting such features, COBOL was just slower to adopt them-because conservatism and inertia and its use in legacy systems. But there are 20+ year old COBOL compilers that support full OO (classes, methods, inheritance, etc)