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.

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 ...

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 ...