This old COBOL app: Should you modernize it?

摘要： COBOL recently made news as aging unemployment systems gave out. Experts share four questions IT leaders should ask when...

Some programming languages come and go, while others come and stay for a while. In the case of COBOL, “a while” means more than six decades: The language debuted in 1959 and is still alive and kicking. In fact, the consultancy COBOL Cowboys says that roughly 90 percent of Fortune 500 firms have production systems that rely on COBOL code.

COBOL is a great litmus test of your notion of “legacy” applications: If you’re using the term as synonymous with “old,” you’re right in the sense that the language is now, in human terms, in its golden years. But if you’re using “legacy” to automatically mean “outdated,” that’s far from a given.

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