Reasons to start a new project in COBOL

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Are there any feasible reasons to start a new project in COBOL?
What benefits of this language one would find convincing enough to start a new project in it?

I'm thinking more about viewing the language in terms of Behavior Driven Development, something related to the steps involved in using a framework such as Cucumber, only that behavior description and step definition would be integrated into one unit by using tha language's features.

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