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# The-COBOL-Archive

This archive is aimed to preserve the programs and scripts from the early programming language COBOL.
This archive is aimed at preserving the programs and scripts from the early programming language COBOL.

COBOL: The Language That Powers Business Applications Worldwide

COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, is a programming language that has been used for decades to write business software applications. Developed in the late 1950s, COBOL is still in active use today, with an estimated 200 billion lines of COBOL code in existence. In this article, we will explore the history, features, and current state of COBOL.

## Progress so far

So far, The-COBOL-Archive has managed to preserve the following programs and files:

* Calculator
* Calendar
* Email Client
* Fizz Buzz
* Game of Life
* HiWorld (Hello World)
* Langton's Ant
* Snake
* TicTacToe

## History

COBOL was first introduced in 1959 by a team of programmers led by Grace Hopper. Its development was motivated by the need for a programming language that could be used across multiple manufacturers' hardware in order to streamline business application development. COBOL was designed to be easily readable and understandable by non-technical business users, as well as to be easily maintainable and optimized for large-scale batch processing.
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Despite its age, COBOL is still widely used in industries such as banking, finance, and government. Many of these organizations rely on COBOL-based applications to handle mission-critical business processes, and migrating away from COBOL can be a difficult and expensive proposition. However, the demand for COBOL programmers has been declining for years, as younger developers tend to focus on newer programming languages. This has led to a shortage of skilled COBOL programmers, and many large organizations have had to hire retired or near-retirement age developers to maintain their existing COBOL-based applications.

Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of COBOL in maintaining critical business processes. In some cases, state governments have had to mobilize retired COBOL programmers to update their unemployment insurance systems in order to cope with the surge in claims caused by the pandemic.