#88 move away fr cobol weak link
The business world moved away from COmmon Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) about 10 years ago and this is a weak link in the armor of banks and other corporations.
With COBOL an applications programmers could speak directly with business people and use COBOL code in the discussion since it is very close to English.
Now the languages used, primarily to increase computer processing speed, result in a situation like programming in a foreign language, and business people have no idea what's going on in the code.
This makes bankers and other corporations very vulnerable to program errors (both intended and unintended) and very dependent on applications programmers.
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