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.

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 ...

Top programming languages: Python still rules but old Cobol gets a pandemic bump Python programming language is once again the most popular choice, according to IEEE Spectrum.

Specifically, a half-century old programming language, COBOL (which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language), can’t handle the demand.

Brylow said completely switching an existing system from COBOL to another programming language is far from a perfect solution.

Developed in 1959, the programming language ' COBOL ' has been widely used for business processing such as monetary calculations because it uses a command syntax that is close to that of a natural ...

Finance Banks should let ancient programming language COBOL die April 25, 2017 - 6:20 pm We did a piece the other day about how learning the ancient programming language COBOL could make you bank.

COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, is a computer programming language that was developed back in 1959, according to the National Museum of American History.

For effectively all new development, the COBOL language is irrelevant. Many seem to think that Java is irrelevant, too, but I don't think that's the case. The problems that the languages were trying ...