Despite the month it took to accomplish those programming changes, Iowa's reliance on COBOL hasn't been an issue during the pandemic, said Workforce Development spokeswoman Molly Elder.

New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that there are upwards of 800 billion lines of COBOL code being used by organizations and institutes worldwide, some ...

Cobol, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, has been the most widely used high-level programming language for business applications during the past 35 years.

Modern COBOL also provides native support for .NET and Java. It is possible to deploy an ANSI 68 COBOL program (i.e something written in the 60s)–unchanged–into the cloud.

Although he’d never worked in Cobol before, Vu actually had wanted to learn for a while. In the midst of predictions of a massive retirement by baby boomers, Vu saw an opportunity. “I said to ...

COBOL, the decades-old programming language, still underpins many government and financial databases in use today. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy has requested COBOL programmers’ help to manage ...

I cut my programming teeth on IBM 360 Assembler. This shouldn't be anyone's first language. In computing's early years, the only languages were machine and assembler. In those days, computing ...

A new study has revealed that businesses are still heavily reliant on the venerable COBOL programming systems. According to a survey by Micro Focus, which follows data gathered in previous 2017 ...