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[–] LurkingLurker_ 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Question: How often is COBOL used anymore?

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[–] dogmatic [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

In my experience, COBOL is used by banks, financial institutions, governments, insurance companies and institutions. Their computer systems were developed in the '60s and still work fine today. Hardware updates don't break the old code. Migrating to a different software platform would involve recoding 50 years of software development, hence many organizations don't update.

In my (atypical) case, the COBOL forms the server-side language of web applications; new development is taking place today, and for the foreseeable future.

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[–] Sr_Loins ago 

Question: I'm working on adding a functionality to a website using asp.net mvc 5, c#, and a data base on sql server 2012. basically what I need to do is have the website display the content in different languages based off of user's choice. Basically when you go to the website the user will be able to click a button or drop down list and select a language, then the content on the website will display in the selected language. The content data is already stored in a data base and is added/edited via a admin page. I was thinking of doing something like creating separate tables in the database that use a languageID and whateverID (like productID) foreign keys to determine the correct content to display. Do you have any suggestions or have any examples where someone has done something like this?

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[–] dogmatic [S] ago 

Google i18n. Many frameworks allow for this. The schema you propose will support multi language. To your own i18n solution is more complex but also more gratifying.