If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?

If you’ve gotten cash from an ATM, you’ve interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here’s why this old programming language will probably outlive us all.

The Divide by Zero Floating Point Error in Cobol is so severe. It affects all your bank accounts. Made us write the fix for this at Shoreham HS, 9th or 10th Grade

https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-cobol-is-so-problematic-why-does-the-us-government-still-use-it

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