A GCC COBOL status report

Oh my God, that is insane. COBOL-85 finally made it possible to use structured programming as you would in other languages(*), and it had some virtues for what it was meant to do (batch processing on flat file databases, essentially). But now it's become essentially Java with a 1950s syntax?

(*) though some people, including my father, were worried that having loop bodies inside the PERFORM statements would cause too deep indentation, and preferred to keep those out of line!