COBOL, IS IT GOING AWAY?

On May 28, 1959, the Data System Language Conference (CODASYL) first met to develop a common language for building business applications. That language is COBOL. By 1960 COBOL was commercialized and more programs written in COBOL than any other language in the following 20 years. Under the influence of FORTRAN (scientific community and FlowMatic programming language), the team recognized the growing needs of the business world. If scientific programmers want to use a single language, they think that they can do the same in business.

Based on these facts alone, COBOL seems almost extinct. You might want to know why we are writing COBOL. But it may seem like a lie. COBOL is a mysterious paradox. COBOL was born in another era and most of today's companies trust is a quiet but important pillar. In areas where speed has never been developed, young people may overlook important skills in the future. People who are familiar with legacy systems know the widely quoted statistics. * 70 - 80% of global business transactions are written in COBOL. In many cases, however, there is no emphasis on the gradual expansion of the gap between the number of large organizations that rely on COBOL and the correlation between today's programmers.

COBOL was born in another era. It is a quiet but important pillar that most companies today depend on.

New programmers are not interested in learning COBOL, but their role in millions of mission-critical transactions from healthcare to travel is undeniable. COBOL was written for the mainframe that mankind created in the month 10 years ago. These same mainframes perform the greatest institutionalized calculations today as well. When someone passes the COBOL plug, millions of companies around the world will experience machine failure. This old programming language is a little jealous today, but it is important to recognize how much COBOL will affect daily work. The following is an overview of the largest system running on COBOL.

COBOL was born in another era. It is a quiet but important pillar that most companies today depend on.