Are any programs written with cobol anymore these days?
2007-11-15 02:41:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Yes, there are tons. COBOL is an incredably robust language that creates long lasting programs so companies that used them back in the 60s and 70s and such still use them today. I'm in college now learning COBOL and have had 3 professors work with the language throughout their careers who say that COBOL isn't going anywhere. If you can learn COBOL than you're guaranteed a job (another thing my profs told me).
People think it's not used any more so they don't bother learning it so the few who do know it are set.
2007-11-15 03:11:27 · answer #1 · answered by aeseeke 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
COBOL programs are definately still written today.
Legacy systems are still running and new systems are being written for client server applications. The server side processing being handled by cobol programs.
There are also programs written in COBOL running on PCs.
2007-11-15 03:08:54 · answer #2 · answered by AnalProgrammer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure there is, BUT no one I know of uses COBOL anymore, they have all gone to something else like access, oracle, C++ or some other programming language. COBOL is a very old programming language.
2016-05-23 06:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure there are still some legacy systems running COBOL. I've had at least two classmates tell me their company still uses COBOL on some systems.
2007-11-15 02:47:05 · answer #4 · answered by screamofthedead 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes, there are somewhere mainly for mainframes.
2007-11-15 02:46:37 · answer #5 · answered by steven25t 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, i don't think so. maybe very very few in the financial sector.
2007-11-15 02:46:20 · answer #6 · answered by cruppstahl 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋