okay, dbase/xbase or mumps...

COBOL ["COmmon Business-Oriented Language"] is the language modern programmers love to hate and ridicule. Although it is nearly as old as commercial computing itself, improperly blamed for Y2K issues, and its imminent extinction is frequently predicted, it is still in widespread use due to its usefulness for traditional business uses of processing data and producing reports. A version with object-oriented tools has even been created, with an inexpensive integrated development environment for Linux and Windows available. It is very verbose, designed so that its commands would describe in English exactly what it was doing.

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