Yeah so that article also mentions something that I'd like to highlight: > Overall we assume that the reason so much of civil society runs on COBOL is a combin

Yeah so that article also mentions something that I'd like to highlight: > Overall we assume that the reason so much of civil society runs on COBOL is a combination of inertia and shortsightedness. Well, there's more to it. Unfortunately, the better a programming language is, the easier it is to understand, change and also replace code. And in reverse, a bad language is therefore harder to replace and more likely to stay. Mind that I'm not saying that cobol is bad or was a bad choice. This is really a general thing, but I believe it applies to cobol at the current time.