| 1. | Retired or laid-off Cobol programmers are getting second chances.
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| 2. | Most programming in COBOL is now purely to maintain existing applications.
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| 3. | It shares the COBOL program structure of data and procedure divisions.
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| 4. | It initially supported a CICS / COBOL / DB2 target environment.
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| 5. | It is still shipped with Micro Focus'COBOL software solution.
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| 6. | A lot of this consists of migrating customers'COBOL code.
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| 7. | A typical call from a COBOL program might be "'
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| 8. | Previous PLUS, COBOL and FORTRAN compilers are also still supported.
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| 9. | There was even a new COBOL standard released just last year!
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| 10. | A : COBOL is an early programming language used for data processing.
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