Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point' Version 15 of the GNU ...

Elon Musk's investigation of federal government systems highlighted Social Security's reliance on software developed in the ...

If you've gotten cash from an ATM, you've interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here's why this old programming language will probably outlive us all.

Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their deep-rooted role in critical ...

COBOL is the hottest programming language of 2020. Learn how it powers the world's mainframe computers in 100 seconds.

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security's software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete ...

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That could bring members of the organization face-to-face with something they’ve potentially never seen before: COBOL, or common business-oriented language. COBOL was developed in the 1950s by a ...

They’re programmed with an old version of the language COBOL that is nearly as old as me. It all comes down to history. On May 20, 1875, the International Bureau of Weight and Measures ...

Other tools that promise to convert COBOL apps to Java syntax can make code that’s difficult to maintain and unrecognizable to Java developers, according to IBM. And currently available AI ...