You know you really should learn Python. It's the most up and coming language. It's very popular now. Many business use it. If you want to earn money programming you must know Python. It's the way forward.

COBOL never died. It just migrated to databases. Look at this shit.

CREATE TRIGGER check_book_pages    
    AFTER INSERT ON chapter
        FOR EACH ROW 
            BEGIN 
                DECLARE total_pages INTEGER;
                DECLARE new_pages INTEGER;
                IF @new_pages > @total_pages THEN                    
                        SIGNAL SQLSTATE '45000'
                END IF;    
            END ^;

A book has a maximum number of pages? In the database? What? If a programmer can see something is invalid then the constraint belongs in the database. That's the best place for it. You suck it up and you write that COBOL. But if only a manager can say something is invalid? Those constraints should go in a domain model somewhere. He's going to change his mind.

It would be .GetState()

Yup. Think about the code, not formatting. It's not a fucking word document. I love typing a bunch of crap and then hitting auto-format and watching it all come together.

As a recent dotnet-core convert and former ruby fag who sees no reason for python, you are correct in at least my case.

I disagree. Anything more than a 1-liner benefits from static types. Untyped code should be static generic. Type inference can make this as convenient to write as dynamic types.

Call it logging. Rich men call it logging.