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Re:Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy by ethbro on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @08:05PM (#20455135)
Not particularly.

It's analogous to saying 'A 60 year old language has better compilers than younger languages.'

Which doesn't seem especially provocative.

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Re:Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy by lostmsu on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @03:07AM (#20457199)
It is quite provocative, considering the amount of activity over compiler's codebase. Which in case of COBOL is likely very close to 0.
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Re:Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy by lboc on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @04:37AM (#20457607)
Both IBM Enterprise COBOL [0] and GnuCOBOL [1] are in active development, and recent releases (September 2017 for both) appear to include support for the COBOL2014 standard.

Not perhaps in the same league as more fashionable languages, but certainly a fair distance away from 'close to 0'.

[0] https://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycleapp/PLCDeta... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL

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