https://opensource.com/article/17/8/what-about-cobol
https://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2013/micro-focus-launches-cobol-code-contest-challenge/
-COBOL supports 90% of Fortune 500 business systems every day -70% of all critical business logic and data is written in COBOL -COBOL connects 500 million mobile phone users every day -COBOL applications manage the care of 60 million patients every day -COBOL powers 85% of all daily business transactions processed -COBOL applications move 72,000 shipping containers every day and process 85% of port transactions -95% of all ATM transactions use COBOL -COBOL enables 96,000 vacations to be booked every year -COBOL powers 80% of all point-of-sale transactions -There are 200 more COBOL transactions per day than Google + You Tube searches worldwide -$2 trillion worth of mainframe applications in corporations are written in COBOL -1.5 million new lines of COBOL code are written every day -5 billion lines of new COBOL code are developed every year -The total investment in COBOL technologies, staff and hardware is estimated at $5 trillion -An estimated 2 million people are currently working in COBOL
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