Are any programs written with cobol anymore these days?
Cobol coding?
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.
Reply:no, i don't think so. maybe very very few in the financial sector.
Reply:yes, there are somewhere mainly for mainframes.
Reply: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.
Reply: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.
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I know of quite a few sites that have both client (Windows) and server COBOL applications running from PCs. Micro Focus and Fujitsu both have PC COBOL compilers. There are a couple of very good open source COBOL compilers as well, one of which supports the Windows API.
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