Finance Banks should let ancient programming language COBOL die April 25, 2017 - 6:20 pm We did a piece the other day about how learning the ancient programming language COBOL could make you bank.

In our mania for the new, it’s convenient to forget just how long the “old” stays with us. Take COBOL, for example. The venerable programming language turns 60 this month and, as Steven J ...

The share of searches per million for the programming language COBOL on the job site Indeed grew 707% during the coronavirus crisis. While job seekers are interested in the language — largely ...

When the Government Accountability Office reported in 2016 on legacy federal IT systems, of the 10 oldest systems it highlighted, three of them use COBOL, the better-known acronym for the programming ...

The programming language COBOL hasn’t been taught at most universities in decades.

COBOL, the decades-old programming language, still underpins many government and financial databases in use today. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy has requested COBOL programmers’ help to manage ...

Learning COBOL would seem to be a sensible career move. That’s because it offers the prospect of plentiful work, and thanks to a shortage in supply, skilled COBOL programmers should be able to ...

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 ...