COBOL- The 66-year-old program that's running world's biggest banks

There has been a sudden rise in COBOL specialists among Banks and insurance firms, and they are ready to pay higher salaries ...
Indiatimes

How this 65-year-old programming language that powers world's 9% ATMs is making companies spend millions to keep it running

At a time when AI engineers with special skills are being paid millions, there is a small group of young developers who are working 65-year-old programming language and making fortunes. This ...
Hackaday

Making The Case For COBOL

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...
TechRepublic

Cobol learning made easy

Learn cobol language programming which is used extensively in mainframe systems. This course mainly concentrates on cobol programming language . Have you ever wanted to learn to code in cobol but ...
Hackaday

Porting COBOL Code And The Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages

Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...
TechSpot

IBM launches AI-powered Watsonx for translating COBOL programs into Java code

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...
Nextgov

COBOL: You’re thinking about it wrong

If COBOL seems as antiquated as the manual typewriter, you’re thinking about it wrong, researchers say. The workhorse coding language developed in 1959 was built to process massive numbers of ...