Social Security's COBOL Software Comes Under Scrutiny
Elon Musk's investigation of federal government systems highlighted Social Security's reliance on software developed in the ...
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.
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New Social Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years old getting checks
The news organization WIRED first reported on the agency's use of COBOL, a programming language which is more than 60 years ...
If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?
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.
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Cobol skills still prized by CIOs
The only other contenders are database management system (DBMS) languages such Oracle or ... them specialising in Java and the other 60 in a mixture of Cobol and Assembler. The company’s ...
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Millions of "dead" Social Security recipients actually caused by a COBOL coding quirk
The administration maintains an impressive 60 million lines of COBOL ... Despite its age, COBOL remains a robust and efficient language for processing large volumes of business data.
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GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL is out
Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point' Version 15 of the GNU ...