Which, of course, leads us directly to: http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/y2k_humor/Cobol.html .... :)
On 1 Sep 2015, at 09:29, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:12 AM M Farkas-Dyck <strake888@gmail.com> wrote:
On 31/08/2015, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote:
> Of course not. There are application areas for which COBOL is clearly
> superior to - and hence more worthy than - Java. Or Haskell.
Name one.

Maintaining ~50-year old government systems that are written in COBOL.  
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