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 ...

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Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. If COBOL seems as antiquated as the manual typewriter, you’re thinking about it wrong, researchers say. The workhorse coding language ...

The COBOL programming language's main strength is its ability to write a wide variety of data files useful for small business, including Microsoft Excel. Organizing the file as a comma-separated value ...

You’d think a computer programming language created in 1959 would be outdated — but you’d be incredibly wrong. Most people know Java and C++, but good ol’ COBOL is still alive and kicking. In the US, ...

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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 ...

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