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When I mention the word Cobol to IT people, they look at me as if I just awoke from a 20-year coma. Many IT professionals consider Cobol, like Latin, to be a dead language. But rumors of Cobol’s death ...

“It lowers the barrier to entry dramatically,” Fowler said. “Developers can open Cobol projects in Visual Studio or VS Code, ...

Let me tell you about a hot Web scripting language. It’s been ported to almost every computer architecture ever made; its speed and readability are legendary. It’s known to be good with databases.

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Cobol still forms the backbone of many crucial financial and administrative systems, with high usage in The Netherlands due to its early and adept automation of the economy. Cobol was, and remains, ...

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Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, is adding groundbreaking innovations to its COBOL solutions designed to help businesses update COBOL applications without ...

COBOL remains a cornerstone of global business operations, powering 70% of the world’s business transaction processing across industries such as banking, insurance, travel, retail, and government.

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 ...