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Cobol: by Rhonda Wright

COBOL is a common business-oriented programming language developed in the 1960s to process business applications. It was designed to be English-like, self-documenting, and promote coding discipline. While COBOL is wordy and slow, it remains widely used today, with 75% of the world's business data stored in COBOL and billions of lines of COBOL code in use. COBOL programmers are in high demand due to the huge financial costs of replacing legacy COBOL systems.

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Cobol: by Rhonda Wright

COBOL is a common business-oriented programming language developed in the 1960s to process business applications. It was designed to be English-like, self-documenting, and promote coding discipline. While COBOL is wordy and slow, it remains widely used today, with 75% of the world's business data stored in COBOL and billions of lines of COBOL code in use. COBOL programmers are in high demand due to the huge financial costs of replacing legacy COBOL systems.

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COBOL

By Rhonda Wright

COBOL

Common Business Oriented Language

Outline of Presentation
History Strengths and Weaknesses Facts Evaluation

History of COBOL
Developed by the CODASYL Committee Business applications Coding Forms

COBOL Design
Punched onto punch cards loaded into the computer using punch card reader

Strengths of COBOL
COBOL is in wide use English-like and self-documenting promotes code writing discipline inherently modular machine independent standardized regularly updated.

Weaknesses of COBOL
wordy limited hard to learn slow

COBOL Facts
75% of the world's business data is in COBOL. Gartner Group There are between 180 billion and 200 billion lines of COBOL code in use worldwide. - Gartner Group 15% of all new applications (5 billion lines) through 2005 will be in COBOL. - Gartner Group CICS transaction volume (such as COBOL-based ATM transactions) grew from 20 billion per day in 1998 to 30 billion per day in 2002. - The Cobol Report

Facts continued
Replacement costs for COBOL systems, estimated at $25 per line, are in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Tactical Strategy Group There are 90,000 COBOL programmers in North America in 2002. Over the next four years there will be a 13% decrease in their number due to retirement and death. Gartner Group There are at least 10,000 "Free Agent" COBOL programmers in the US today. - The Senior Staff

Facts Continued
The most highly paid programmers in the next ten years are going to be COBOL programmers. - GIGA Group Any programmer with above average skills in COBOL can quickly learn the basics of Web Enabling, at home, through self-training. - Bill Lockhart, Legacy Reservist COBOL programmers could be the key to new IT. The legions of COBOL programmers who helped organizations get legacy applications ready for Y2K could find new work bringing those applications into the Internet age. IEEE Computer, April 2000

COBOL Evaluation
Good for a first programming language Big impact on other languages

widely used today simple and understandable dominant programming language in the business computing domain

References
Www.csis.ul.ie/COBOL/Course/COBOLIntro.htm http://www.cobolwebler.com/cobolfacts.htm Cobol in an Open Source Future http://cobolreport.com/columnists/tw/part2.asp

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