"So we have two legacy languages in the TIOBE Top 20 for rather different reasons - COBOL skills are still needed to sustain vital legacy (or should that be out-dated) systems. Fortran, on the other hand, has a role to play at the cutting edge of scientific research and can be expected to have an expanding role in its "Modern" incarnation."
I'm working on removing an important spreadsheet from Google Docs, and maintain that in LibreOffice.
Thing: In G Docs I wrote a few macros to sort the file in various ways, using 4 and 5 fields.
Libre Calc only allows 3 sort fields, and the G-Doc macros don't work in Libre Calc.
I've written a #Python program to convert a CSV to a file with fixed length, and writing a #COBOL program to do the sorting for me.
Sorting multiple columns in Python is a PITA. In COBOL it's laughably simple.
I wish something like the IBM S/34 #GSORT would exist for Linux. That would make this even simpler.