Am 23.01.2019 um 00:41 schrieb news18:
and have been a STANDARD since they were invented in 1978 by
Kernihan and Richie.

They were not and there were other more significant languages. In any
case, has C surplanted COBOL yet.

Yes it has; the market for new COBOL programmers is non-existent since
approx year 2000.
Typical example is when my dad retired in 2005, he made sure his
company, a large car manufacturer, replaced their own COBOL programs by
an SAP solution (Kernel RTE programmed in C, business logic in their own
interpreted language 'ABAP').

I have heared similar stories from the large banks as well: retire their
home-grown COBOL solutions and buy standard software from SAP, Oracle or
from the new cloud companies.