A recent survey, conducted by Computerworld at 352 companies, revealed that a lot of them are still using Cobol actively.

“A lot of people have said they were going to get rid of the mainframe, but that hasn’t happened. And for us, all that code is working. There’s no sense in rewriting it.”

“For years, pundits have said that the way to avoid the headaches of maintaining Cobol – and mainframes, green screens and other legacy paraphernalia – is to replace them. But that hasn’t happened, even in the massive Y2k remediation effort.”

But the most amazing fact of all is that 58% said they’re using it to develop new applications. Viva Cobol!

See the full report at Cobol Coders: Going, Going, Gone?

(Via Mainframe)