Terry Olaes
I Used to be the [H] News Guy
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Yep, COBOL is still around and it just celebrated its 50th birthday. Common Business-Oriented Language has several anniversaries that people debate as the official birthday and the one on 9/18 celebrates the anniversary of the name. And really, that which we call a COBOL by any other name would execute as leet. (Ok, that was a stretch…
According to November 2008 stats from Datamonitor, the world is still running 200 billion lines of COBOL code and about 5 billion lines are added to live systems every year. Believe it or not, between 1.5 and 2 million developers are still working with the 50-year-old programming language.