That's not very different from "being forced to use COBOL by your employer". Surely, I'll use one in this case (or quit), but it doesn't make it superior.

01.09.2015, 11:30, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>:

> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:12 AM M Farkas-Dyck <strake888@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 31/08/2015, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote:
>>> Of course not. There are application areas for which COBOL is clearly
>>> superior to - and hence more worthy than - Java. Or Haskell.
>> Name one.
>
> Maintaining ~50-year old government systems that are written in COBOL.

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