Cobol: Its Still Here

Surprised to see this,  but should not be.   Its still around in many forms.

New Jersey Needs Volunteers Who Know COBOL, a 60-Year-Old Programming Language
CNBC
By Kif Leswing

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has called for volunteers skilled in the 61-year-old COBOL programming language, as many state systems use older mainframe computers are seeing record demand for services while the coronavirus pandemic disrupts the economy. For example, New Jersey's information technology department is using four-decade-old mainframes to process unprecedented numbers of unemployment applications. Said Murphy, "Literally, we have systems that are 40-years-plus old, and there'll be lots of postmortems. And one of them on our list will be how did we get here where we literally needed COBOL programmers?" Said New Jersey CIO Beth Noveck, “We are using a lot of volunteer help already and we are going to stand up a site this week to allow us to take volunteers of a wide variety.” ... '