COBOL: You’re thinking about it wrong
And while headlines might indicate the language had fallen into disfavor, the amount of COBOL in use continues to grow, with 800 billion lines running in production systems daily, according to a global survey conducted last year by enterprise software firm Micro Focus. COBOL is considered strategic by 92% of survey respondents, and over half said the
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Micro Focus is a main player in Cobol landscape. If the survey was answered by their clients, those numbers are to be expected. Besides, for any language is to be expected a growth in the number of lines in production; software projects are always raising their line count, so only a big decrease in the number of systems running Cobol would yield to a decreasing number of lines.
Remove COBOL is a very slow process. It can take decades for a big organization. And new lines of code must be written for the transition. And until the new systems are ready, you have to keep adding new features to the old ones.
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