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 ...

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.

Some states have called on programmers who know the programming language COBOL to help their computers process unemployment claims in the wake of COVID-19.

Banks and financial companies are desperate to find programmers who know COBOL, an almost 60-year old programming language that is still in full effect.

At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. There are strong opinions about whether that is the right direction.

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 ...

MORE than 70 per cent of academic leaders believe that organisations will continue to rely on applications built using COBOL for the next 10 years or more, but only 18 per cent have it as a core ...

Despite the month it took to accomplish those programming changes, Iowa's reliance on COBOL hasn't been an issue during the pandemic, said Workforce Development spokeswoman Molly Elder.