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MUMPS powers chunk of TD Ameritrade infrastructure. While sounds cool, this is just as scary as knowing that COBOL powers chunk of other banks infrastructures (
by vskarine 11y ago
MUMPS powers chunk of TD Ameritrade infrastructure. While sounds cool, this is just as scary as knowing that COBOL powers chunk of other banks infrastructures (Schwab, etc).
- qznc 11y ago> In 2006 and 2012, Computerworld surveys found that over 60% of organizations used COBOL (more than C++ and Visual Basic .NET) and that for half of those, COBOL was used for the majority of their internal software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#Legacy Also, COBOL got a spec update in 2014. It is not really a dead language.