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Every year, COBOL systems are responsible for transporting up to 72,000 shipping containers, caring for 60 million patients, processing 80% of point-of-sales transactions and connecting 500 million mobile phone users. COBOL manages our train timetables, air traffic control systems, holiday bookings and supermarket stock controls. And the list could go on. 90% of global financial transactions are processed in COBOL. • The language supports over 30 billion transactions per day. • The average American still interacts with a COBOL program 13 times a day. • There are 1.5-2 million developers, globally, working with COBOL code. • There are around 200 billion lines of COBOL code in use. • Around 5 billion lines of new COBOL code are added to live systems every year. • The investment made into COBOL systems over the past 50 years is said to be worth about $2 trillion dollars.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:28:59 +0000

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