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: 1) It powers about 80% of in-person financial services transactions and 95% of ATM swipes. 2) On a daily basis, it processes $3 trillion in commerce. 3) There are over 220 billion lines of code and 1.5 billion are written each year. Dead? Far from it. Read more here.