I tried writing my own little accounting app in GnuCOBOL. For fun, believe it or not. It didn't take me too long to bow to the inevitable and rewrite it in Perl.
I had a look at it a few years ago, and decided it probably wasn't suitable for my purposes. Interestingly, I see that it was updated in June of this year. The original code stretches back decades, IIRC, and has been deployed in a commercial setting. I spoke to the author on one occasion.
I have a casual interest in retro stuff, so Cobol was kinda interesting to play with for awhile, but in the end I decided that it was hopelessly impractical.
Speaking tangentially, there's a project on Sourceforge called Applewood Computers Accounting System https://sourceforge.net/projects/acas/
I had a look at it a few years ago, and decided it probably wasn't suitable for my purposes. Interestingly, I see that it was updated in June of this year. The original code stretches back decades, IIRC, and has been deployed in a commercial setting. I spoke to the author on one occasion.
I have a casual interest in retro stuff, so Cobol was kinda interesting to play with for awhile, but in the end I decided that it was hopelessly impractical.