<html><head></head><body>Old isn't useless unless you're not upper management at IBM<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On July 15, 2022 2:14:10 PM MST, Ben Coleman via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 7/15/2022 2:24 PM, Sean Kilpatrick via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">And other than a few government agencies that are stuck with antiquated <br>equipment, who is still using COBOL??<br></blockquote><br>Banks. According to some sources, every time you swipe an ATM card, 95% <br>of the time there is COBOL code involved in processing it. Evidently, <br>it's also heavily used in payroll processing.<br><br>Go open VSCode, go to the extension search box, and type in COBOL. <br>You'll find nearly 50 extensions come up, including at least one <br>providing IntelliSense for it. There is evidently enough demand for <br>COBOL to have support for it provided in the VSCode extension marketplace.<br><br>As I put it elsewhere recently, COBOL is still being used because it <br>still works for what it does, and has been working for literally decades.<br><br>Ben</pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>