Comment Comment by whartung Curious what the limitations were.Anecdotally I was talking with a COBOL vendor way back in the mid-80s and he had mentioned that their COBOL compiler was itself written in COBOL.FORTRAN also suffered limitations back in the day, notably lack of dynamic memory, yet folks were able to write sophisticated systems in it as well. parent whartung 3 years ago
Anecdotally I was talking with a COBOL vendor way back in the mid-80s and he had mentioned that their COBOL compiler was itself written in COBOL.
FORTRAN also suffered limitations back in the day, notably lack of dynamic memory, yet folks were able to write sophisticated systems in it as well.