Original link: COBOL at 65 – Celebration Day / Elnion.
Congratulations.
Cobol as a language is definitely obsolete today. But it got 35-40 years as the default choice of language for business applications. That is very impressive.
And it has actually done better in recent years than its old competitors: PL/I, Dibol, Mumps etc..
Even though relative little new Cobol is being written, then there are still billions of lines of Cobol running in production in finance, government etc..