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 was created in 1959 and has been widely seen as obsolete for decades. Yet there are still a fair number of software systems based on the language. The economic stresses ...

The market's knee-jerk reaction makes enough superficial sense. Anthropic's AI-powered computer-coding platform Claude can easily help modernize complicated programs written in COBOL (Common ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early days of writing COBOL ...

The economic shutdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic has caused a massive surge in unemployment benefit claims nationwide. Unfortunately, in many states across the US, unemployment benefit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Minecraft ...

Anthropic’s AI-powered computing-coding agent Claude appears easily capable of competing with one of IBM’s core businesses. Worries of this threat sent IBM stock careening on Monday. A deeper dive ...