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 used for ...

Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics consider outdated. Musk ...

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 three ...

Multiple US state government departments were in the news recently, calling for COBOL programmers to come forward as their mainframe systems failed to handle a surge in unemployment claims processing ...

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Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...