New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that there are upwards of 800 billion lines of COBOL code being used by organizations and institutes worldwide, some ...

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.

A new poll of university course leaders has revealed that students aren't being taught legacy programming languages like Cobol, even though they know businesses want it.

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 ...