Some states have called on programmers who know the programming language COBOL to help their computers process unemployment claims in the wake of COVID-19.

The first COBOL program ran on an RCA 501 on Aug. 17, 1960, according to Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, by Kurt Beyer. Later that December, the same program was put on an RCA ...

One programming language you don't hear much about when covering the Microsoft-centric development beat is COBOL. That changed last week with a tweet from Miguel de Icaza, known for starting GNOME, ...

COBOL is a 50-year-old programming language that some say government should get away from. But it could still have a place in modern IT organizations.

At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. There are strong opinions about whether that is the right direction.

IBM is releasing a free training course next week to teach the 60-year-old programming language COBOL to coders. It is also launching a forum where those with knowledge of the language can be ...