This post is a collection of quotes about COBOL (initially released in 1959). There are 3 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
1. "[COBOL] was created as part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing." (Wikipedia: COBOL, 1.4.23 UTC 16:55)
2. "COBOL is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers, such as large-scale batch and transaction processing jobs." (Wikipedia: COBOL, 1.4.23 UTC 16:55)
3. "...much important legacy COBOL software uses unstructured code, which has become unmaintainable. It can be too risky and costly to modify even a simple section of code, since it may be used from unknown places in unknown ways." (Wikipedia: COBOL, 1.4.23 UTC 16:55)
