you should read COBOLs wikipedia article

A couple months back, i stumbled upon the Wikipedia page for COBOL, and it's honestly incredible. You can read it here Read it? Alrighty, I'm gonna gush about it a bit now. First of all, the whole gravestone story was great. Peak comedy right there. I also love how the development timeline of COBOL is kind of a microcosm of all the things that can go horribly wrong with Enterprise™®© software. It soon became apparent that the committee was too large to make any further progress quickly. A frustrated Howard Bromberg bought a $15 tombstone (in 1959; equivalent to roughly $170 now) with "COBOL" engraved on it and sent it to Charles Phillips to demonstrate his displeasure. Cobol was a stopgap measure that became permanent, was over time and over budget, wasn't even what anyone initially wanted, was given unreasonable deadlines and not only designed by committee; it was designed by three different committees all competing against each other, appointed by a different committee. that's…