Why is COBOL still being used? One of the primary reasons COBOL is still so widely used is the shear amount of code that was written in COBOL in the last 30 years. The amount of money to convert this legacy code to one of today’s modern programming languages would be in the billions of dollars. Businesses have so much money invested in their COBOL programs already, that most can’t or don’t want to start all over again if these systems meet their current needs...
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Businesses have so much money invested in their COBOL programs already, that most can’t or don’t want to start all over again if these systems meet their current needs. Even though better languages have been designed, all the business can’t just discard the legacy code in COBOL, which will cause extra cost and disruption...
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