Object orientation and artificial intelligence are two characteristics of applications that are of growing interest to businesses. Can a typical COBOL transaction processing application incorporate...

Object orientation and artificial intelligence are two characteristics of applications that are of growing interest to businesses. Can a typical COBOL transaction processing application incorporate object and AI tenets? Will COBOL change or will other languages come to be used? Can other languages be 'grafted on' or interfaced to COBOL gracefully? Be sure to document your arguments.