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.

COBOL's roots start as a Department of Defense-funded effort to make a highly readable coding language optimized ... other objects are only functional in limited form, like non-interactive buttons ...

The administration maintains an impressive 60 million lines of COBOL code. According to the Social ... are required to file a Statement of Death (Form SSA-721). Additionally, the SSA has been ...