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 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 ...

New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that there are upwards of 800 billion lines of COBOL code being used by organizations and institutes worldwide, some three ...

The COBOL skills gap is neither as extreme nor as straightforward as you might imagine. Here’s what companies can do to keep their COBOL systems running, and what would-be COBOL developers should know ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More This month in 2019 marks the 60 th anniversary of COBOL.

Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career. He’d signed a three-week contract to help a major U.S. retailer ...