Re: Many Businesses Still Love COBOL - Slashdot

Actually quite a large percentage of sites had COBOL back in the day
when I was involved with it Rich.

At one point 18% of all Developement** systems (** Those that had also
licensed SEU, PDM etc.) had COBOL. For RPG I _think_ the percentage was
about 95 - so many shops had both.

On Feb 18, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David,

Thanks for sharing this. While the IBM i platform and its predecessors

have all been RPG oriented, the OS has always included COBOL as an option.
COBOL is my "native" language and I still create new applications with it.
It integrates with the API's in the OS well and I have yet to find
something that I can't get done using it. I have even deployed CGI browser
applications that talk with COBOL programs.

Rich Loeber - @richloeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com

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On 2/17/2020 4:53 PM, David Gibbs via COBOL400-L wrote:

Just saw this on my feed...

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/20/02/17/0141200/many-businesses-still-love-cobol

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