Some states have found themselves in need of people who know a 60-year-old programming language called COBOL to retrofit the antiquated government systems now struggling to process the deluge of ...

(CNN) -- On top of ventilators, face masks and health care workers, you can now add COBOL programmers to the list of what several states urgently need as they battle the coronavirus pandemic. In New ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy made an urgent call for programmers who have experience with COBOL — a programming language over 60 years old — to help the state deal with the ...