COBOL, which debuted in 1959, was a leading language in the earliest era of computing and there are still billions of lines of COBOL code running production applications today.

LOL. At my old CBS company, we used to say something to the effect of "Unraveling the COBOL conundrum is not a task that can be deferred indefinitely" in ca. 2000. 25 years later, 75% of US GDP ...

Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics consider outdated.. Musk ...

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons ...

COBOL, a 50-year-old programming language, is used by many government agencies, including the OMV, for processing data. Following the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles' outage on March 20, Gov ...

Despite COBOL's enterprise-focused nature and the developer's lack of prior experience, this alternative version of Minecraft runs smoothly, supporting most of the game's basic features.

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15.1 has arrived with improvements for programming languages ranging from Rust to C to Cobol. GCC 15.1 also brings improvements for vectorization and for compiling ...

The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore. An alarmingly large portion of the world's business and finance systems run on COBOL, and only a small community of programmers know it.

Cobol was, and remains, the go-to technology for reliable financial and administrative systems, such as those used by the tax administration, banks, insurers and mortgage lenders.