COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...

Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...

IBM is developing a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted software development tool to help its customers modernise legacy Cobol applications, The new tool, watsonx Code Assistant for Z, ...

Next time you laugh at musty old tech, remember that new technologies are often built on it. By Shira Ovide Caitlin Mooney is 24 years old and infatuated with technology that dates to the age of ...

Mainframe computers running code dating back to the 1960s are still vital to some banks, airlines and government departments, but the skilled engineers familiar with their COBOL computer language are ...