>> As for Cobol being data-intensive... yes, you had to do some highly intensive programming pushups to get it to do data :). Not to mention the overly long foreplay you had to do before you could do some coding. <<

LOL. And so true. By the time you got done with the Data Division / foreplay it was, figuratively speaking, 2 in the morning. And it wasn't even interesting foreplay. Pure tedium.