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Re:The code that controls our money by jamesfinlayson on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:20AM (#28466883)
Nothing really, but I imagine a COBOL compiler (and possibly a runtime/execution environment) that still gets updated doesn't come cheap anymore. If I were writing a new banking host today I'd write it in Java or C# and be hopeful that the tech will have a longer shelf life than COBOL.
Re:The code that controls our money by IncRnd on Thursday September 09, 2021 @06:11AM (#28468116)
As far as I know GNU COBOL is free. At least that's what I saw when running jsfiddle for COBOL.

https://www.jdoodle.com/execute-cobol-online/

Re:The code that controls our money by jamesfinlayson on Thursday September 09, 2021 @08:51PM (#28476546)
Ah right - I've never used COBOL but I thought IBM had a compiler and tools and I didn't think it would be free by any stretch.