"The New COBOL" - Benno Rice (PyCon AU 2019)

Benno Rice COBOL was one of the first business-oriented programming languages, showing up in the 1960s. It’s also regarded as one of the worst languages in which to work. But is that true? And if so, what could ever take its place as the most reviled thing in dev? https://2019.pycon-au.org/talks/the-new-cobol PyCon AU, the national Python Language conference, is on again this August in Sydney, at the International Convention Centre, Sydney, August 2 - 6 2019. Video licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Python, PyCon, PyConAU Sun Aug 4 10:30:00 2019 at Cockle Bay