Do you know COBOL? Want a job? https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/coronavirus-cobol-programmers-new-jersey-trnd/index.html
Oh, gosh. I date back that far. COBOL was meant to be, and is, a bit verbose. I would have thought that all those Cold War era mainframes would be in a landfill somewhere by now but clearly not.