> 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, COBO

> 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.