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COBOL

since 1959 (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1975)

COBOL is one of the oldest programming languages. Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.

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bhaugen
jma
lawley
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undoingemptyvoid
cherimullins
vangale
codewritinfool
takitimu
abtin
jeffself
jorjun
cdeblois
MarkofCain
sbastn
acdha
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leveille
gsiegman
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af
notanumber
floyd
binarydud
mdridley
Josh
daniellindsley
trey
anoop
rrainey - 50 years
bhaugen - 12 years
jma - 46 years
lawley - 45 years
brucehoult - 2 years
undoingemptyvoid - 6 years
cherimullins - 4 years
vangale - 1 years
codewritinfool - 2 years
takitimu - 2 years
abtin - 1 years
jeffself - 2 years
jorjun - 2 years
cdeblois - 5 years
MarkofCain - 30 years
sbastn - 2 years
acdha - 3 years
Atrujillo - 3 years
leveille - 2 years
gsiegman - 1 years
madewulf - 1 years
af - 2 years
notanumber - 1 years
floyd - 2 years
binarydud - 1 years
mdridley - 1 years
Josh - 1 years
daniellindsley - 2 years
trey - 2 years
anoop - 1 years
rrainey
1975–
bhaugen
1976–1987
On IBM 360's using punch cards, and (much later) HP 3000's.
jma
1979–
lawley
1980–
brucehoult
1982–1983
At university in 1982, and then, conveniently, commercially for a summer holiday job 1982/1983.
undoingemptyvoid
1983–1988
Used in college for one semester then eventually at my second job wrote some COBOL code to test our HDBMS API. Never wrote any non-academic applications in it, don't like it.
cherimullins
1984–1987
vangale
1985
Worked on a COBOL project for 7 months. Managed to find a new assignment after the project manager asked me to stop using dynamic memory allocation because "it was too tricky" (this was a non-standard feature in Wang VS COBOL).
codewritinfool
1985–1986
takitimu
1987–1988
University business course, horrible language.
abtin
1987
jeffself
1988–1989
Actually had to take 2 courses in this while in college. Swore I would never use this in a job. To this day, I haven't.
jorjun
1989–1990
Nasty, and nobody would like to admit this one, but a fair number of large corporations loved it. Hence it was on the curriculum at Polytechnics.
cdeblois
1990–1994
Purely educational.
MarkofCain
1995–
sbastn
1996–1997
Worked on a banking app for a few months and built a full video store app with this. Almost went blind because of this language: ALL CAPS CODE and thousand lines methods. It took me years to recover from this...
acdha
1996–1998
If you ever saw AcuCobol running in a browser, I'm to blame
leveille
1996–1997
My experience with Cobol is limited to my exposure in a CS class.
Atrujillo
1996–1998
RM-COBOL
gsiegman
1997
For school. This language almost made me hate programming.
madewulf
1998
I was the poor guy in charge of doing the project in this language for a university course... and I did like it, but what did I know at the time....
af
1998–1999
notanumber
1998
floyd
1998–1999
binarydud
1999
mdridley
2002
trey
2003–2004
Josh
2003
daniellindsley
2003–2004
anoop
2005
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siliconchaos
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