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Its death has been predicted many times. In fact, if there is one constant in the history of COBOL it may be predictions of the programming language’s death.
COBOL was created in 1959 by industry and government programmers but even then its future was uncertain.
“In less than a year there were rumors all over the industry that COBOL was dying,” said Grace Hopper, rear admiral and programmer who helped design the language in a 1981 lecture.