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COBOL Programmers Are Destined To Code COBOL For The Rest Of Their Lives, And Thereafter.
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"COBOL programmers are destined to code COBOL for the rest of their lives,
and thereafter."
-- Remark made by Bertrand Meyer (inventer of the Eiffel language)
-- at a panel discussion at OOPSLA '89
Related:
Quote #412 C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. -- Bertrand Meye
Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.
COBOL programmers are self-documenting.
COBOL programmers do it with bugs.
Real programmers don't write in COBOL. COBOL is for wimpy applications programmers.
COBOL programmers do it very slow.
We've picked COBOL as the language of choice.
BCPL: Beats Cobol Programming Language