The present and future for past languages--COBOL.(DATABASE INTELLIGENCE)

From: Database and Network Journal | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: Morach, Mike | Copyright information

The usual title for an article like this is, "is COBOL dead?" But that was a silly question when I first heard it 20 years ago. And today, with tens of billions of lines of COBOL code still in use, that question is even sillier. As this feature shows, COBOL will continue to play a dominant role in application development for many years to come, although the nature of that role may be changing.

The current status of COBOL on IBM mainframes Today, the typical enterprise ap...

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