Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language

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22. COBOL still runs many mission-critical mainframes

"COBOL is still very popular today in 2021. Depending on the source you’re looking at, there are still between 200 and 250 billion lines of COBOL code in production. Many large corporations, 70% in fact, still rely on COBOL for much of their mission critical work. Government, finance, insurance, automotive and banking industries are still heavy users. Roughly 43% of banking systems use COBOL and every time you swipe an ATM card, it executes COBOL code 95% of the time. There are 1.5 billion new lines of COBOL programmed each year."

https://techchannel.com/Enterprise/03/2021/business-systems-cobol]

This link very nicely starts with giving credit to Admiral Grace Hopper, one of the very earliest programmers and the person who (along with her team) developed COBOL. The team which she led also wrote the first complier. Brilliant!

As an undergraduate learned COBOL, Fortran-4 and some actual Machine Languages—which are not to be confounded with the user-friendly assembly languages used today (e.g. i86-ASM)