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That's a pretty good analogy, but it's Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.
Grace Fucking Hopper![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a8718282-7635-4b48-bc8a-3be6c744882c.png)
So move fast and break things, 60s edition.
Cobol is a Hornet. Still used for production in first-world countries, but basically just because of shitty, slow-moving institutions.