There's a misconception that COBOL is dead, its not, there are developers and new compilers being built for it. [1] IBM isn't sitting around waiting for COBOL

There's a misconception that COBOL is dead, its not, there are developers and new compilers being built for it. [1] IBM isn't sitting around waiting for COBOL to die out, its working out hooks between COBOL and Java and introducing new languages like NodeJS [2] The problem isn't money, its risk. No CIO is willing to risk moving to a new system, and that's the problem that needs to be attacked. [1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/community/BinaryOptimizer https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/communit... [2] https://developer.ibm.com/zsystems/documentation/java/workshop/java-and-cobol-interoperability-introduction/ https://developer.ibm.com/zsystems/documentation/java/worksh...