Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...

Some states have found themselves in need of people who know a 60-year-old programming language called COBOL to retrofit the antiquated government systems now struggling to process the deluge of ...

For effectively all new development, the COBOL language is irrelevant. Many seem to think that Java is irrelevant, too, but I don't think that's the case. The problems that the languages were trying ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...

IBM’s stock experienced one of its biggest single-day drops on February 24, in over 25 years, due to market concerns about new AI tools (like Anthropic’s Claude Code) that claim they can automate the ...

The legacy programming language that refuses to die is still powering millions of daily transactions, but the difficulties of maintaining and integrating Cobol mainframes make the case for ...

One programming language you don't hear much about when covering the Microsoft-centric development beat is COBOL. That changed last week with a tweet from Miguel de Icaza, known for starting GNOME, ...

On top of ventilators, face masks and health care workers, you can now add COBOL programmers to the list of what several states urgently need as they battle the coronavirus pandemic. In New Jersey, ...

The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask the ...