COBOL - 30 Metrics & AHP Score

Introduction

COBOL is a Procedural, Imperative programming language first appeared in 1959, designed by CODASYL. Main use cases: Business Processing, Legacy Systems, Batch Processing.

30 Metrics

Metric Value Rank
GitHub Stars 25843 127
Stack Overflow Tags 402319 108
TIOBE Rank 124
RedMonk Rank 128
PYPL Rank 126
Average Salary (USD) 71890 139
Job Postings 20447 98
Benchmarks Score 0.37 153
Learning Curve Easy
Community Size Medium
Documentation Quality 2
Ecosystem Maturity 4
Industry Adoption 4
Type System Complexity 3
Concurrency Support 5
Performance - Execution Speed 5
Performance - Memory Usage 6
Performance - Startup Time 6
Tooling Quality 2
Package Manager Quality 4
IDE Support 2
Debugging Experience 2
GitHub Stars Rank 127
Stack Overflow Tags Rank 108
Average Salary Rank 139
Job Postings Rank 98
Benchmarks Rank 153
Learning Curve Score 9
Community Size Score 5
AHP Score 4.4 116

Hello World Example

DISPLAY 'Hello, World!'.

Main Use Cases

  • Business Processing
  • Legacy Systems
  • Batch Processing
  • CICS
  • DB2

AHP Score

COBOL AHP Score: 4.4 (#116)

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