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I often hear people say, "COBOL is apparently still in active use," but surprisingly few people have actually seen the code.

Vol. 09 Grace HopperNot a single invention, but a standard for sharingA single program might run on one company's computer ...

Apple never had 64bit PowerPC laptops. Which means there never was the situation when someone may release purely 64bit app, they had to provide dual-mode apps. That's what allowed it to switch, ...

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 ...

GT Software, a provider of technology solutions for enterprise modernization, has announced the general availability of its latest releases of the NetCOBOL compiler solutions - NetCOBOL for Windows ...

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 ...

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 ...