The share of searches per million for the programming language COBOL on the job site Indeed grew 707% during the coronavirus crisis. While job seekers are interested in the language — largely ...

Some of the hottest languages include Python, go lang, Java and Swift. But there is one that seems to never show up on any list: COBOL. The perception is that it is, well, a dinosaur. Yet consider ...

Finance Banks should let ancient programming language COBOL die April 25, 2017 - 6:20 pm We did a piece the other day about how learning the ancient programming language COBOL could make you bank.

Specifically, New Jersey was seeking programmers who knew how to code COBOL, a programming language that is widely used on mainframe computers like the systems that process the state’s unemployment ...

If not for FORTRAN, which was invented five years earlier, COBOL would hold the title of world’s oldest active programming language.

Specifically, a half-century old programming language, COBOL (which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language), can’t handle the demand.

Brylow said completely switching an existing system from COBOL to another programming language is far from a perfect solution.

Some states have called on programmers who know the programming language COBOL to help their computers process unemployment claims in the wake of COVID-19.

The COBOL generation Some smart people realized that a computer could do a lot more for more companies and decided that a better and easier programming language would make a huge difference. They even ...

Unlike modern programming languages that require specific syntax, COBOL is relatively simple to learn.

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Visual Cobol R3, released ...