I remember reading a fascinating article (or Reddit post, at the time when those were sometimes awesome) from this guy interviewing his mom, a COBOL programmer… Wondering if it’s related…

Update: found it but it was deleted

Update: found it on the waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160719020302/https://medium.com/@Svenskunganka/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe-cobol-programmer-c693d40d88f7#.kiw240b6p