If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?
If you've gotten cash from an ATM, you've interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here's why this old programming language will ...
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kottke.org posts about cobol
Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of ...
Elon Musk’s DOGE team may need a crash course in COBOL
As Musk’s young engineers push to ‘modernize’ government systems, they may find themselves bogged down in a decades-old ...
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Open Mainframe Project aims to fill COBOL skills gap
“This call for skills is a great example of how communities ... Broadcom is offering Code4z on VS Code Marketplace, IBM is providing COBOL training, and Rocket Software is providing BlueZone ...
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IBM Teases Watsonx Generative AI Tool That Translates COBOL To Java
Other tools that promise to convert COBOL apps to Java syntax can make code that’s difficult to maintain and unrecognizable to Java developers, according to IBM. And currently available AI ...