Sources? I don’t buy those stats for 2019.
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And if you compare how many lines of COBOL you wrote without the comfort
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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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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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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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"Lines of code" is a pretty irrelevant metric though. Newer languages are designed to do more while using less code.
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Will it be replaced by Ruby on Rails in the future? I think it might.
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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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I work for a bank and can say that you underestimate the amount of COBOL being used globally..
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