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Most banks, and many other businesses that have been around 30+ years, are still running on COBOL.
It was popular because of its highly readable syntax and its fixed-point packed decimal math for financial calculations.
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Most banks, and many other businesses that have been around 30+ years, are still running on COBOL.
It was popular because of its highly readable syntax and its fixed-point packed decimal math for financial calculations.