New Social Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years old getting checks
People who are listed as over 100 years old in the Social Security system are "not necessarily receiving benefits," the new ...
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GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL is out
Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point' Version 15 of the GNU ...
If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?
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.
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Social Security's COBOL Software Comes Under Scrutiny
The SSA currently uses COBOL, which is 60-year-old programming language still widely employed in government databases. According to reports from Wired, one reason for the supposed 150-year-old ...
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Millions of "dead" Social Security recipients actually caused by a COBOL coding quirk
Developed in the 1950s, COBOL powers critical functions within the SSA, including processing retirement and disability claims. The administration maintains an impressive 60 million lines of COBOL ...
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Cobol skills still prized by CIOs
UK catalogue shopping company JD Williams employs about 88 developers, 28 of them specialising in Java and the other 60 in a mixture of Cobol and Assembler. The company’s warehouse application ...