Some of the hottest languages include Python, go lang, Java and Swift. But there is one that seems to never show up on any list: COBOL. The perception is that it is, well, a dinosaur. Yet consider the following about COBOL:

• It powers about 80% of in-person financial services transactions and 95% of ATM swipes.
• On a daily basis, it processes $3 trillion in commerce.
• There are over 220 billion lines of code and 1.5 billion are written each year.

Dead? Far from it. Via Forbes – Read here.