The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

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The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask the ...

COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language and was created in 1959. It was partly drawn on the work of computing pioneer Grace Hopper and was built for a single purpose: processing business ...

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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 ...

The COBOL programming language's main strength is its ability to write a wide variety of data files useful for small business, including Microsoft Excel. Organizing the file as a comma-separated value ...

The COBOL skills gap is neither as extreme nor as straightforward as you might imagine. Here’s what companies can do to keep their COBOL systems running, and what would-be COBOL developers should know ...

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