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Top Mainframe Programming Languages

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Today's large organizations and businesses are dependent on legacy IT systems. They are also facing an unavoidable situation like an urgent shortage of skills as many of the experts are at the age of retirement or already out of business and are also unable to share their knowledge and expertise with the upcoming generation. Programming languages like COBOL , which was created in 1959 but is still extensively used by major enterprises to handle data from crucial central systems like billing, accounting, payroll, and customer interactions, often serve as the foundation for these systems. To be clear, the list of mainframe programming languages presented below is not intended to be a quantitatively conclusive ranking of the most widely used mainframe coding languages. I'm not aware of anyone compiling statistics on the market share of different mainframe languages. Let's look at some of the best mainframe programming languages now that the disclaimer has been made. C...