[pixl97]

In my experience working with large financial institutions and banks, there is plenty of running COBOL code that is around the average age of HN posters. Where as a lot of different languages code is replaced over time with something better/faster COBOL seems to have a staying power in financial that will ensure it's around a very very long time.

[brightball]

I wasn’t aware of this until that talk, but COBOL essentially being both the logic and the database together makes it very sticky.

[layer8]

What do you assume the average age of HN posters to be?

[pixl97]

35-40, though it could be just a bit older as there is no official metric on this.