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 | 25819 | 126 |
| Stack Overflow Tags | 324393 | 139 |
| TIOBE Rank | 121 | |
| RedMonk Rank | 114 | |
| PYPL Rank | 125 | |
| Average Salary (USD) | 87179 | 87 |
| Job Postings | 17059 | 129 |
| Benchmarks Score | 0.62 | 61 |
| Learning Curve | Easy | |
| Community Size | Medium | |
| Documentation Quality | 2 | |
| Ecosystem Maturity | 4 | |
| Industry Adoption | 5 | |
| Type System Complexity | 2 | |
| Concurrency Support | 4 | |
| Performance - Execution Speed | 5 | |
| Performance - Memory Usage | 6 | |
| Performance - Startup Time | 6 | |
| Tooling Quality | 5 | |
| Package Manager Quality | 6 | |
| IDE Support | 6 | |
| Debugging Experience | 5 | |
| GitHub Stars Rank | 126 | |
| Stack Overflow Tags Rank | 139 | |
| Average Salary Rank | 87 | |
| Job Postings Rank | 129 | |
| Benchmarks Rank | 61 | |
| Learning Curve Score | 8 | |
| Community Size Score | 4 | |
| AHP Score | 4.81 | 94 |
Hello World Example
DISPLAY 'Hello, World!'.
Main Use Cases
- Business Processing
- Legacy Systems
- Batch Processing
Popular Frameworks
- CICS
- DB2
AHP Score
COBOL AHP Score: 4.81 (#94)