COBOL
Legacy language for financial and government systems
Typing: static Created: 1959
Paradigms
procedural
Pros and Cons
Ventajas
- + Processes 95% of ATM transactions
- + Extremely stable
- + Self-documenting by design
- + Demand for legacy maintenance
Desventajas
- - Extremely verbose syntax
- - Very few new developers
- - Difficult to modernize
- - Dated tooling
Casos de Uso
- Core banking systems
- Government applications
- Payroll processing
- Insurance systems