Something I always wonder about COBOL, since it has so little influence on other languages, is if there are good ideas that we missed out on.
Done my 10k lines batch COBOL. It is a waste of life. Verbose. C is better but unfortunately it is not very io. Still ...
batch COBOL with mainframe parallel io sub-processor helps a lot.
May be the cics where 1000+ users can use a pc (3-5 mips even emulated) with 16MB is something unusual.
Something I always wonder about COBOL, since it has so little influence on other languages, is if there are good ideas that we missed out on.