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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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere in a world full of advanced technology that we write about regularly here on TechCrunch, there exists an ancient realm where mainframe computers are still running programs written in COBOL.

One of the oldest programming languages, COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) turned 50 this past week. On December 6, 1960, COBOL was first used on two different makes of computers, proving that ...

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Visual Cobol R3, released Thursday, ...

Until a few months ago, the clearing and billing system for NYSE Group Inc.’s stock options exchange consisted of about 800 discrete Cobol programs running on an IBM mainframe. Today, the entire ...

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs — 343 million lines of ...

The legacy programming language that refuses to die is still powering millions of daily transactions, but the difficulties of maintaining and integrating Cobol mainframes make the case for ...

Chris O'Malley is President and CEO of Compuware, a BMC company, bringing mainframe DevOps to the Autonomous Digital Enterprise. You’ve probably seen more headlines about COBOL this year than in the ...

Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...