# My surreal experience with COBOL

DevFeed: [My surreal experience with COBOL](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/my-surreal-experience-with-cobol-40829.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mutto.fyi/posts/2022/09/my-surreal-experience-cobol/>)

Published: 2022-09-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Mutt0-ds Notes](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mutt0-ds-notes.md>)

Topics: [cobol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cobol.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/legacy.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ibm.md>), [Visual Studio Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/visual-studio-code.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [cobol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cobol.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ibm.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy.md>), [personal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/personal.md>), [thought](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/thought.md>), [visual-studio-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visual-studio-code.md>)

## AI overview

A personal account of learning COBOL through IBM's course for Visual Studio Code and other tutorials. It discusses COBOL's legacy use, distinctive syntax, maintainability challenges, stability, and the practical difficulty of setting up a development environment.

## Source excerpt

I was feeling curious... So, I decided to challenge myself and try to learn a bit more about COmmon Business-Oriented Language aka COBOL,...