the.com/cobol
the language mainframes speak, banks depend on, and nobody wants to admit they still write.
means a 1959 programming language built for business data processing, still quietly running payroll, banking, and government systems worldwide.
from born from a 1959 Pentagon-funded committee (CODASYL) led by Grace Hopper's ideas, designed so managers could read code almost like english sentences.
still runningan estimated 220 billion lines still in production
syntax stylereads like verbose english, not math
cobol cowboysretired programmers get paid huge sums to maintain it
name originstands for common business-oriented language