The simple answers are:
1. Very large pool of experienced COBOL programmers.
2. Vast worldwide portfolio of existing code which is running most of the major
business systems ion the world.
3. COBOL is a "safe" language in that it is strongly typed and does not require
pointers.
4. COBOL supports hierarchical data structures - a natural fit with business
record keeping.
5. COBOL supports decimal data types (and therefore all data normalization) as a
primitive type.
This note is an attempt to answer Ruth's question, and not to defend COBOL.
Carl
"Brooks, Ruven" wrote:
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> http://www.cobolscript.com/
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> Why DO people persist in using Cobol?
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> Ruven Brooks
