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    Brian Roemmele‏ @BrianRoemmele 9 Jun 2019
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    There is >220 billion lines of COBOL in running This equates to around 80% of the world’s actively used code 200 times as many COBOL transactions take place each day than Google searches COBOL systems handle $3 trillion in commerce—every day 70% of COBOL code is >25 years oldhttps://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1137722175543078912 …

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    I worked on a project of 700,000 lines of banking COBOL written by 12 folks in 1983. There was no clear logic and it perplexed everyone. I tracked down the last programer alive age 73. He laughed and said he hated the bank and hoped someday they would be in a mess—they were! https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1137716938954510337 …
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      2. Clemens Vasters  🇪🇺 ☁ 📨‏ @clemensv 10 Jun 2019
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        Replying to @BrianRoemmele @timpastoor

        Sources? I don’t buy those stats for 2019.

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      3. Joerg Wende‏ @joerg_wende 10 Jun 2019
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        And if you compare how many lines of COBOL you wrote without the comfort 😎 of OO or any sort of application servers...

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      1. Aviral Singh‏ @iamaviralsingh 9 Jun 2019
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        This translates into very limited code that is "actively used" over the last 25 years. Counter-intuitive and concerning...

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      1. soo-rah-z MMXX‏ @splasheth 9 Jun 2019
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        Replying to @BrianRoemmele @chainyoda

        My spouse used to work for First Data Inc., Running credit card batches on their mainframes.. 3 Days ago, she started learning solidity

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      1. JH Buhrmaster‏ @JohnBuhr 10 Jun 2019
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        Replying to @BrianRoemmele @TweddleKevin

        I never imagined while in my 20’s and programming COBOL that it could also become my retirement job some day. Some areas of technology move at the speed of light, while others rely upon the ancient language of Cobol maintained by Social Security eligible Boomers.

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      2. JESSE ℂOUℂℍ‏ @jessecouch 10 Jun 2019
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        "Lines of code" is a pretty irrelevant metric though. Newer languages are designed to do more while using less code.

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      1. Guru Pai‏ @GoodForAll6 9 Jun 2019
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        Will it be replaced by Ruby on Rails in the future? I think it might.

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      1. Linda Kemp‏ @LindaLarsonKemp 10 Jun 2019
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        Old COBOL programmer here—among other stuff. No surprise. BTW, biggest problem in making any nonsuperficial changes or replacing the systems with new ones will be figuring out what the code is actually DOING. Old systems designs won’t have been kept—certainly not kept up to date.

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      1. Dinesh Keswani  💻 ☁️ 🏈‏ @dkeswani 10 Jun 2019
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        I work for a bank and can say that you underestimate the amount of COBOL being used globally.. 🙂

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