There aren’t a lot of businesses built around tape cassettes or floppy disks, so a lack of experts who can repair those decades-old technologies is rarely a problem. That’s not the case with Cobol—a ...

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Quiz: What is “legacy” software? a. Cobol/mainframe code b. Software written before 1990 c. Applications that have become obsolete d. Poorly documented systems that no one wants to touch e. Secure, ...

Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...

Cobol still forms the backbone of many crucial financial and administrative systems, with high usage in The Netherlands due to its early and adept automation of the economy. Cobol was, and remains, ...

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 ...

Despite the proliferation of digital banking apps, the banking industry still runs almost half its systems on a 1950s programming language, which makes it difficult for financial institutions to ...

My first brush with COBOL was many moons ago, when I was working as an assembler programmer on an ICL 1903A mainframe. Ah, those heady days of wading through acres of spaghetti code. The whole purpose ...