[ale] You know you're getting old....

[Jim Kinney]

Old isn't useless unless you're not upper  management at IBM


On July 15, 2022 2:14:10 PM MST, Ben Coleman via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>On 7/15/2022 2:24 PM, Sean Kilpatrick via Ale wrote:
>> And other than a few government agencies that are stuck with
>antiquated 
>> equipment, who is still using COBOL??
>
>Banks.  According to some sources, every time you swipe an ATM card,
>95% 
>of the time there is COBOL code involved in processing it.  Evidently, 
>it's also heavily used in payroll processing.
>
>Go open VSCode, go to the extension search box, and type in COBOL. 
>You'll find nearly 50 extensions come up, including at least one 
>providing IntelliSense for it.  There is evidently enough demand for 
>COBOL to have support for it provided in the VSCode extension
>marketplace.
>
>As I put it elsewhere recently, COBOL is still being used because it 
>still works for what it does, and has been working for literally
>decades.
>
>Ben
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