If you stacked every line of COBOL code remaining in the world, it would easily reach the moon. It’s an open secret that a supposedly dead programming language is still lurking in thousands of data ...

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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 ...

IBM has announced COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1, bringing IBM's COBOL compilation technologies and capabilities to the Linux on x86 environment. According to the IBM announcement, COBOL for Linux on x86 ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GT Software, a leader in digital transformation and modernization, announces the global distribution and availability of NetCOBOL® for Linux V12.2, which enables customers to ...

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15 is moving forward as a planned update to the series, with a new front end for Cobol. The upgrade also is set to bring improvements to C and C++ development. GCC 15 is ...

Veryant, a COBOL-to-Java vendor, has released vCOBOL Enterprise, a platform to migrate legacy COBOL applications off IBM mainframes. vCOBOL includes an optimized compiler and COBOL-to-Java runtime ...

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 ...

ONE TOPIC that few people write about these days is Cobol. Aside from the slew of Y2K articles a couple years ago, Cobol has not mustered much attention in recent times. Although Cobol won’t be ...

COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, and is one of the oldest programming languages. It is used extensively in industries such as banking, insurance, and retail, and many experts ...