From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 20:24:23 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] COBOL ... it lives!
To: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Think COBOL is dead? About 95 percent of ATM swipes use COBOL code,
Reuters reported in April, and the 58-year-old language even powers 80
percent of in-person transactions. In fact, Reuters calculates that
there=E2=80=99s still 220 billion lines of COBOL code currently being used =
in
production today, and that every day, COBOL systems handle $3 trillion
in commerce. "

https://thenewstack.io/cobol-everywhere-will-maintain/

I'll let the expects natter on about this.

mjw