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<p>and governments. COBOL is still widely used in applications deployed on <a href="page.php?w=mainframe_computer">mainframe computer</a>s, such as large-scale <a href="page.php?w=batch_processing">batch</a> and <a href="page.php?w=transaction_processing">transaction processing</a> jobs. Many large financial institutions were developing new systems in the language as late as 2006, but most programming in COBOL today is purely to maintain existing applications. Programs are being moved to new platforms, rewritten in modern languages, or replaced</p><p>
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