COBOL- The 66-year-old program that's running world's biggest banks

There has been a sudden rise in COBOL specialists among Banks and insurance firms, and they are ready to pay higher salaries ...

How this 65-year-old programming language that powers world's 9% ATMs is making companies spend millions to keep it running

Despite its age, COBOL remains the critical backbone of the global financial system, handling trillions daily. As its ...
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Making The Case For COBOL

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...
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Porting COBOL Code And The Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages

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, ...