As far as I can tell, the OP wants people to stop inventing languages and "just write good code". They're deliberately describing COBOL as exciting, new and modern to make their point.

In fact, that's what they say after clicking the buttons at the bottom - which are actually part of the article.

Actually not if one reads carefully.

Well all right, they don't really want COBOL - they're saying that that's what they were describing as something they wanted.

But my point was primarily that people probably missed that they had to click the buttons to read that.