Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Since the introduction of COBOL in 1959 and its standardization 10 years later, it has served as the backbone of mainframe business ...

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 ...

While the future is uncertain, the decades-old programming language running on mainframes proved its staying power during the pandemic. Now, more professionals are needed. Image: iStockphoto/Deagreez ...

At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it’s likely offered at less than one in four schools. For most students, this means the odds are high that they will attend ...