Why COBOL is still the best language for...

... huge ammount of transactions????

I've always wondered. In my company, COBOL programmers tend to have higher salaries (they are older, too), But the thing is, technically, ¿why is superior to other technologies?

PS: I hate COBOL. Anyone sane does.

Even if the syntax looks lame, it has an advantage. It is completely human readable, something that non-programmers can appreciate.