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, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Leahey is an attorney and law professor that covers tax. AUSTIN, TX - JUNE 10: A computer running COBOL 73, an antiquated ...
Information technology modernization specialist Rocket Software Inc. is integrating generative artificial intelligence and adding support for Arm processors in its line of Cobol modernization products ...
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Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics consider outdated.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 ...
The big picture: COBOL is decades old yet it still dominates our IT ecosystem and even the economy. But a replacement must be found, if only because the number of developers that can work on the ...
COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...