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COBOL

By
PATRICK MWIMANZI
ASR-CESI
WHAT IS
COBOL?
 COBOL or

Common Business-Oriented
Language

 Compiled English-like computer


language designed for business

 File Extension : cbl, cob and cpy


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Brief History
In the 1950s, wen enterprises in the
western world grew, there was a need
to automate procedures for ease
operation.
Which led to the development of high-
level programming language for
commercial data processing: “COBOL”

 Created by CODASYL in 1959 (first


version ever)
 The creation of COBOL was
intended to achieve two key
goals: portability and readability

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ALTERNATIVES TO COBOL
The best alternative to COBOL depends on the specific use
case:

JAVA PYTHON C# RUBY

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COBOL PYTHON

Is easier than python: Python


sacrifices
In terms of coding WHY COBOL readability for
readability, self- WILL NEVER brevity
Python is more
documentation, and DIE modern, scalable
ease to use

It is like a
programmer
tells the
computer what
to do step by
step
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COBOL CODE
PYTHON CODE

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BUT Really : Why cobol will never die?
Manage large amounts of data than other language

To be a programmer in COBOL demands a strong understanding of machine languages =>


big problem

Companies (most natably insurance agencies, banking industries, and the government
sector) are held hostages by COBOL

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The average age of a COBOL developer is between 45 and 55
years

Now over 800 billion lines of COBOL in daily use, quite impossible
for campanies today to rewrite them using a more modern
programming language.

Not only there is no documentation but also rewriting these


critical business logic and operations (as an example: transactions,
bank records, and interest calculations) is a massive project and very
expensive and quite impossible.

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COBOL, in and of itself, once revolutionized the
business industry, and is by no means a “bad
programming language.”
But the reality is =>
Despite all negative things I said below:
COBOL code is unlikely to be removed

22/06/20XX Pitch deck 9


THANK
YOU

OR NOT

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