> COBOL even exists on Windows these days "these days"?? COBOL has been available on Windows since Windows 3.1, and was even a commercial success on DOS in pr

> COBOL even exists on Windows these days "these days"?? COBOL has been available on Windows since Windows 3.1, and was even a commercial success on DOS in pre-Windows days. Yes, it was principally used in finance on mainframes, but the mini- and micro-computer implementations were fully ANSI standard, and included extensions for CICS and other mainframe stuff. (I worked on DOS COBOL runtime support, then OS/2, then Windows ...)