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Programming Languages and Code Reuse—The Long-Term Trends

Is COBOL defunct? Are single language projects a thing of the past? Based on a study of more than 8,000 business projects, find out what trends and changes are occurring within programming languages and code reuse, and how those trends affect project sizes.

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Katie Costantini
College Grads Who Know COBOL Earn More

College students who know COBOL earn more than their peers when hired after graduation. How much more? On average, new graduates who took COBOL classes, even if COBOL was taken as an elective, garnered more than ten thousand dollars in annual salary earnings versus fellow tech industry graduates.

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COBOL Still Used More Than Google

Lero, a software engineering research center, recently announced that even in today’s fast-evolving and innovative society COBOL is still being used more than Google. Researchers at Lero claim that there are more than two hundred times more COBOL transactions than Google searches worldwide.

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The New Foreign Language: Computer Programming?

Spanish or JavaScript? This is a question public school students in the US could be asking themselves as they choose their future courses. In several states, government officials are pushing to have programming languages count for a student's foreign language requirements.

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Why You Should Learn COBOL

Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) is taught in only a third of US schools. Yet, COBOL is responsible for more than 70 percent of the world's business transactions. If that isn't reason enough to stop what you're doing and learn COBOL, then read on to see exactly why you should.

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Why COBOL Will Never Die

Despite the arrival of newer languages and the transition away from mainframes, COBOL has managed to hang around. One reason it can’t die is that there remains a reported 220 billion lines of COBOL code still in use.

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