Цитат:
The statistics that surround COBOL attest to its huge influence upon the business world. There are over 220 billion lines of COBOL in existence, a figure which equates to around 80% of the world’s actively used code. There are estimated to be over a million COBOL programmers in the world today. Most impressive perhaps, is that 200 times as many COBOL transactions take place each day than Google searches – a figure which puts the influence of Web 2.0 into stark perspective.
Покрай проблем 2к мои познати програмисти на COBOL заминаха да кърпят банков софтуер в САЩ със заплати от над 200 000 (!) долара годишно...