Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point' Version 15 of the GNU ...

If you've gotten cash from an ATM, you've interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here's why this old programming language will probably outlive us all.

Elon Musk's investigation of federal government systems highlighted Social Security's reliance on software developed in the ...

Most of the erroneous payments were overpayments to living people. Part of the confusion comes from Social Security's ...

This week, another great milestone in the field of running Minecraft in unexpected ways has been met— this time, courtesy of the open-source CobolCraft project, we have a version of server ...

The real culprit, though, is a programming language that has been the backbone of the Social Security Administration for decades. Developed in the 1950s, COBOL powers critical functions within the ...

COBOL was developed in the 1950s by a private-public partnership that included the Pentagon and IBM. The goal was to create a universal, English-like programming language for business applications.

Other tools that promise to convert COBOL apps to Java syntax can make code that’s difficult to maintain and unrecognizable to Java developers, according to IBM. And currently available AI ...

Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their deep-rooted role in critical ...