According to a 2022 survey by overseas media The Stack, the number of COBOL lines used in production environments exceeds 800 billion lines worldwide. On the other hand, there are few experts in COBOL ...

COBOL ', developed in 1959, is widely used in the financial, automotive and medical industries because it uses a command syntax similar to natural language. However, the number of people who can ...

The irony of all this is that tertiary IT courses no longer teach Cobol. However, Wright says, "We don't care. If the kids (out of university) come to us with an understanding of a programming ...

DOGE has outlined a proposal to replace the core programming of the SSA, which has been running on COBOL—a language created in the late 1950s. According to WIRED, DOGE's team is pushing to complete ...

The Social Security Administration is facing a potential overhaul of its computer systems, one that could disrupt the benefits of millions of Americans who rely on these payments. The Department of ...