WIRED, an international news media outlet, has reported that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to migrate the Social Security Administration's (SSA) computer systems ...

Otterkit is a free and open-source compiler for the COBOL programming language that runs on the .NET platform. It is currently in the alpha stage, under development to implement the COBOL 2023 ...

Once every decade or so, the call goes out for Common Business-Oriented Language or COBOL programmers. Although over 60 years old, the language is still in use today. COBOL programmers are needed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.