Bringing COBOL back into the college IT curriculum
Ed Lindoo · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2014
As shocking as this may sound to some, there are many reasons beyond great need to bring COBOL back into the CIS curriculum. IBM estimates that there are more than 200 billion lines of COBOL code still in use across industries such as retail, insurance and banking [5]. How can this be? COBOL died years ago with the advent of C++, C#, .NET and others.....right? Wrong! Airey [1] found that COBOL still runs over 70% of the world's businesses and surprisingly there are over 200 times more transactions processed daily by COBOL business applications than there are Google and You Tube searches every day! Further, Airey [1] stated that the average individual interacts with a COBOL based business application at least seven times every day.