Commodore 64 COBOL For Fun And Profit?

Is it possible to make COBOL interesting? I try by porting 10 PRINT to a C64 implementation of COBOL. Supported by my patrons at Patreon: 8BitShowAndTell

Links:
8BST - 2nd Channel: @8-bitshowandtell247
Download COBOL: https://www.commodoreserver.com/Publi...
COBOL manual: https://archive.org/details/COBOL-64_...
LCGs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_...
The "Microsoft Formula": https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Linear_c...

Index:
0:00 Intro
0:56 LOAD"COBOL 64",8,1  then SYS 2051
2:13 COBOL Advantages
3:39 COBOL source code: Identification, Environment, Data Divisions
8:37 The Procedure Division
13:18 My terrible linear congruential generator
16:48 Saving, compiling, and RUNing - and a crash
18:25 For real RUN
19:35 Did Not Print Stats
20:41 Thanks to my patrons!

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