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Re:GnuCOBOL – a free/libre COBOL compiler by m463 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:13AM (#26737030)
The only high-level language more proven is Lisp, but most of the procedures are written in lower case so I don't think it's serious enough to be a business oriented language.

Also, business people don't like things to think for themselves, so Lisp would be risky in that respect.

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Re:GnuCOBOL – a free/libre COBOL compiler by gnufx on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:50PM (#26742325)
Not Fortran, in which you originally needed to SHOUT, though you couldn't go SHOUTING? It was good enough to implement one of the earliest RDBs, after all, which sounds business-like.
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