Louisiana is using a mainframe that's over 50 years old to run the OMV. What is COBOL and why does it matter as the REAL ID deadline looms?

If you've gotten cash from an ATM, you've interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here's why this old programming language will probably outlive us all.

Developed in the 1950s, COBOL powers critical functions within the SSA, including processing retirement and disability claims. The administration maintains an impressive 60 million lines of COBOL ...

With GCC 15, the C compiler will default to C23 instead of C17, and the C++ compiler and standard library will start to get ...

This month, Fortran, Ada, COBOL, and Delphi all vying for positions in the TIOBE Index top 20. Takeaways from the March TIOBE ...

IT students at the University of Limerick are being offered Cobol courses Cobol has long been written off as old hat, but many CIOs at large UK organisations have little choice but to carry on ...

Other tools that promise to convert COBOL apps to Java syntax can make code that’s difficult to maintain and unrecognizable to Java developers, according to IBM. And currently available AI ...

The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles is experiencing intermittent outages due to issues with its COBOL mainframe. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared a State of Emergency due to the outages ...