Cobol still lives.

[eddie]

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Historical

000100* HELLO.COB OpenCOBOL FAQ example
000200 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000300 PROGRAM-ID. hello.
000400 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000500     DISPLAY "Hello World!".
000600     STOP RUN.

Modern

*> OpenCOBOL Hello World example
identification division.
program-id. hello.
procedure division.
display "Hello World!" end-display
goback.

Fiftieth birthday of Cobol (aka comon business oriented language) that was allegedly invented by a lady named Commodore Grace Hopper. I say that just in case MS says it has a patent on Cobol too. Both Microfocus and Ibm still use Cobol even on web servers! There are still, even openings for Cobol programmers. That amazed me. Finding a system that uses Cobol might be like finding the Dead sea scrolls in terms of computer history. You can still run cobol on linux with Opencobol and a c compiler.

[Patrick]

Finding a system that uses Cobol might be like finding the Dead sea scrolls in terms of computer history. You can still run cobol on linux with Opencobol and a c compiler.

I work in a shop that has a large mainframe with a ton of stuff running Cobol. A lot of financial shops still run Cobol on their mainframes. It's more common than you think.

[Linc]

Finding a system that uses Cobol might be like finding the Dead sea scrolls in terms of computer history. You can still run cobol on linux with Opencobol and a c compiler.

I work in a shop that has a large mainframe with a ton of stuff running Cobol. A lot of financial shops still run Cobol on their mainframes. It's more common than you think.

Quite. There are a LOT of places still running COBOL. Still very big in banking/financial institutions and manufacturing plants running on mainframes. As an aside, you'd be suprised how many places are still using PDP/11's too