COBOL: 60+ Years of Proven Business Rules, Still Going Strong

It’s kinda funny that most developers only tell jokes about COBOL, when
massive amounts of COBOL code is in fact what makes the financial world go round, even in 2019!

It’s estimated that COBOL runs close to 90% Of all Fortune 500 Company business-software systems worldwide, and this code is responsible for around 85% of business-transactions each day.

Also, around 70% of other mission-critical business-logic and more general
information-systems used by companies and governments worldwide is written using COBOL. …