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

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.

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 ...

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

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security's software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete ...

That could bring members of the organization face-to-face with something they’ve potentially never seen before: COBOL, or common business-oriented language. COBOL was developed in the 1950s by a ...

IT students at the University of Limerick are being offered Cobol courses Cobol has long been written off as old hat, but many CIOs at large UK organisations have little choice but to carry on ...