COBOL Comes To Visual Studio 2015

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 22, 2015 @06:36AM from the but-what-about-plankalkÃ¼l? dept.

New submitter dmleonard618 writes: Micro Focus isn't writing off COBOL just yet. The company is trying to win developers over with COBOL with the latest release of Visual COBOL for Visual Studio. The new solution aims to bring back the ancient language and make it relevant again. "Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2015 is the next generation of COBOL development solutions, designed for today's application developer to do just that, in a productive and cost-effective way," said Micro Focus' Ed Airey.

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Re:Why not implement by phantomfive · 2015-08-22 06:54 · Score: 5, Insightful

while there are some ancient systems still out there requesting the odd COBOL programmer
Trillions of dollars worth of code is written in COBOL. Every time you make a monetary transaction, it involves a system running COBOL.

do they actually expect COBOL to make a come-back?
Over a billion new lines of code is written in COBOL every year. It's here to stay.

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