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> COBOL and PL/I are still pretty alive for anyone working today on IBM and Unisys mainframes and microcomputers, regardless of bug fixes or new features. Are
by AnimalMuppet 3y ago
> COBOL and PL/I are still pretty alive for anyone working today on IBM and Unisys mainframes and microcomputers, regardless of bug fixes or new features.
Are they alive by gumby's definition of alive? Is anyone beginning new codebases in COBOL or PL/I, even on mainframes?
- pjmlp 3y agoA dead language is something like BLISS or Concurrent Pascal. Brown field development moves much more consulting money per year than green field development.
- jcranmer 3y agoNew versions of the COBOL standard are still coming out, so I'd guess that the answer is "yes".
- kjs3 3y agoYes, there are new COBOL code bases.
- araes 3y agoThe issue with COBOL (opinion) is that its used in "business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments" (development sponsored by the DoD) which all tend to be high money, secrecy, and competition. Plus, back in 2012, 60% of all companies surveyed still had COBOL in the back somewhere (2017: 43% of banking systems still used COBOL with over 220 billion lines of COBOL code). There might be stuff written COBOL, except they're never gonna share it with you, cause its far too important to the fight over the $100 trillion stock markets.