Yes, Social Security Administration systems that rely on COBOL need to be updated. No, Elon, it can't be done quickly.

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) embarks on an ambitious plan to overhaul the Social Security Administration's (SSA) outdated COBOL systems. Experts warn that the accelerated timeline ...

According to Wired's sources, the bureaucratizers want to use it to translate the estimated 60 million lines of COBOL code into another programming language. It will also cover important core ...

the COBOL front end, the libcobol standard library, and the accompanying documentation. We confess that we haven't counted, but according to Phoronix this is a whopping 134,000 lines of code.

Jean E Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of Cobol, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20th in Maryland in the United States.

Watsonx Code Assistant for Z will eventually modernize billions of lines of COBOL code while preserving IBM Z performance, security and resiliency, according to the vendor. COBOL was created in ...