A new study has revealed that businesses are still heavily reliant on the venerable COBOL programming systems. According to a survey by Micro Focus, which follows data gathered in previous 2017 ...

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 ...

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons ...

Programming languages don't often make national headlines. But New Jersey governor Phil Murphy's plea earlier this month for developers familiar with the 60-year-old programming language Cobol to ...

Hong Kong's financial-services sector, distressed by a lack of Cobol (Common Business-Oriented Language) software programmers, will face an even tighter supply next year.