2007-11-09 03:14:45 · 3 answers · asked by nanaynikikay 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Microsoft is bringing COBOL into the 21st century by creating a type of Visual COBOL that is .NET compliant.
WHY???
I don't know!!!
Anybody using COBOL will stick to the programs already written, they won't be rewriting millions of programs just to "modernize", and new programs are being written in either C# or VB.NET.
But yes, there is still a lot of COBOL programming - mostly maintenance and upkeep, I believe.
If you're considering learning and becomming a COBOL programmer, you'll be worth your weight in gold, since most of the old COBOL programmers are all slowly going into retirement.
2007-11-09 03:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope only by a few telephone companies and lucky me I can use cobol but no phone companies that use it still are ever hiring.
2007-11-09 11:20:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's still in use for many of the legacy systems running on mainframes, but there's not much new development being done with it.
2007-11-09 11:24:02 · answer #3 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋