Why it’s time to learn COBOL

"When I was in college 30 years ago COBOL was declared dead, but it's still going strong and it's still a very good language."So says Leon Kappelman, a professor of information systems at the University of North Texas (UNT). And he certainly appears right about the half-century old programming language going strong: There are still hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL code in use today by banks, insurance companies and other organizations, and COBOL is still used somewhere in a large proportio