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 ...

While modern programming languages like Java and .NET are widely used, COBOL is still very much alive and -- for some businesses -- here to stay. Similar to other old, imperative languages like ...

Converting COBOL to Java line by line might seem like a straightforward approach to mainframe modernization, but enterprises that go that route won't be able to fully escape COBOL's clutches, experts ...

A report suggests the use of one of the oldest programming languages could be a lot bigger than previously estimated. New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that ...