Comment by pelasaco

I worked in a finance institute, when I was responsible for the mainframe and mainframe security. I was 24, and I was surrounded by senior engineers, already over their 50s. I had to go back home, back to my father, to ask for help. He is still today teaching COBOL in the university. Was a pleasure to learn this language that to me was a kind of "Cucumber" from the 60s. However, looking into the details of the whole workflow from COBOL applications, I wasn't that happy looking from the security point of view. The code and solutions predates any security best practices that we have today.