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by brianwawok 4090 days ago
I had to learn a tiny tiny bit of COBOL to help transition some mainframe code from COBOL -> Java. If you are just reading it to gut the program, not a huge deal. You can play with the inputs and outputs and verify your work.

Now having to learn COBOL to maintain it? That seems not fun. A simple change can take days...