Micro Focus has announced the results of its new COBOL Survey that reveals the latest global developments and 2022 plans for enterprises utilizing COBOL and mainframe technology. The survey found that ...

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 ...

The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask the ...

Derek Britton is product director at Micro Focus. "We should note the force, effect, and consequences of […] three discoveries the ancients didn't know. [They] have changed the whole aspect and state ...

COBOL offers the promise of job security and above-average pay. Even some of the cool kids are doing it. “When I was in college 30 years ago COBOL was declared dead, but it’s still going strong and it ...

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 ...

In our mania for the new, it’s convenient to forget just how long the “old” stays with us. Take COBOL, for example. The venerable programming language turns 60 this month and, as Steven J.