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.

Elon Musk's investigation of federal government systems highlighted Social Security's reliance on software developed in the ...

The news organization WIRED first reported on the agency's use of COBOL, a programming language which is more ... agency has ...

Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.

Developed in the 1950s, COBOL powers critical functions within ... including the use of placeholder dates for unknown information. According to Manjeet Rege, a professor of data science and ...

There will come a time when C becomes the COBOL of the 21st century, and the faster that happens, the less blood will stain the pavements of the information superhighway. Doing things badly when ...

At the University of Limerick in Ireland students are offered the option to learn Cobol skills as part of a four-year degree in information technology management for business. Cobol remains a ...

They’re programmed with an old version of the language COBOL that is nearly as old as me. It all comes down to history. On May 20, 1875, the International Bureau of Weight and Measures ...

IBM’s Code Assistant for Z promises to produce object-oriented Java code optimized to interoperate with the rest of the COBOL app with the Customer Information Control System (CICS) transaction ...