COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...

IBM has overhauled how the 50-year-old programming language COBOL runs on its System z mainframes to give COBOL apps a web-friendly facelift. Despite COBOL's age IBM estimates that more than 200 ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...

IBM's approach to Web site building in WebSphere Studio Advanced Edition 3.5 and the included VisualAge for Java Professional Edition is completely Java-centric, so organizations with Java skills will ...

One for the ancient immortal computing demons still among us: COBOL, one of the first programming languages to fall into favor, but long succeeded by more efficient and easier to understand languages ...