It's funny how it's presented as "standing the test of time". There is plenty of "old stuff" that still exists and those aren't tested by time either, it's just

It's funny how it's presented as "standing the test of time". There is plenty of "old stuff" that still exists and those aren't tested by time either, it's just that there is not enough of an incentive or foresight to do something about it. If general OOP-language software engineers had the same army of QA, PR, marketing and sales people that mainframes have you'd probably end up with the same thing. I'd say COBOLs continued existence isn't the main case, it's just a side-effect.