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, ...

One programming language you don't hear much about when covering the Microsoft-centric development beat is COBOL. That changed last week with a tweet from Miguel de Icaza, known for starting GNOME, ...

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The death of COBOL, as reported widely back in the heady days of client/server in the 1990s, has been greatly exaggerated. According to Gartner Inc., 80% of the world's business runs on COBOL, there ...

Consider the following items allegedly gathered from various Gartner reports: * There are 310 billion lines of legacy code operating in the world (65% of all software). * Five billion lines of new ...

Despite the proliferation of digital banking apps, the banking industry still runs almost half its systems on a 1950s programming language, which makes it difficult for financial institutions to ...

COMMENTARY-- Many enterprises have generated COBOL applications involving huge investments in both money and resources over the last 20 years. The last thing they want to do is throw this investment ...