On: 220 Billion Lines of COBOL? BS

[dkersten]

I dunno, personal friends of mine have worked on COBOL code and I'm definitely NOT old enough to have been around during COBOL golden age.

Also, regarding Y2K, I imagine if power plants and such were not updated, we'd have been in a bit of trouble.

[rincewind → dkersten]

You don't write software for power plants in COBOL. COBOL is intedned for stuff like managing payrolls, not control engineering.

[dkersten → rincewind]

Ok then, financial institutions. I know a lot of the Irish Revenue legacy systems are in COBOL. Y2K could potentially have affected that too (though obviously nowhere near as drastically as a power plant).