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by krior 103 days ago
The same can be said for Cobol and its relarionship with banking, but you will struggle to find anyone not categorizing cobol as legacy.
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I'm not in banking so I don't know if banks write new business logic with Cobol or merely maintain existing systems. I would be very surprised, though, if modern web-based products are using Cobol, or fancy high-speed trading platforms, or big data-driven machine learning, etc.
That's quite the non sequitur. The relationship you mention isn't why COBOL is legacy.
Depends on which COBOL they are using.

https://www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/products/cobol/visual-c...

Latest standard is from 2023.

Nowadays everyone is moving into natural language programming, writing even longer prompts than COBOL applications.