The future of COBOL COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was the first widely used high-level programming language for business applications. Many payroll, accounting, and other business application programs written in COBOL over the past 35 years are still possible that there are more existing lines of programming code in COBOL than in any other programming language has been update over the years. Today we already stepped in internet Age, most of old style business also have …showed first 75 words of 901 total…

…showed last 75 words of 901 total…job. But if a fledgling 10-person company with one programmer (or a modest 100-person company with 5-10 programmers) does decide to write an application system today for its PC-based. Internet-aware environment, my guess is that the odds of COBOL being used are about one in a thousand. So if you are a large company and you want to move forward from where you are without taking huge risks, COBOL is worth at least a look.