The TechToolBlog brings us this categorized list of programming books available for free online. The list is extensive, and it includes some gems such as COBOL, Fortran and Ada. Of course, there are ...

New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that there are upwards of 800 billion lines of COBOL code being used by organizations and institutes worldwide, some three ...

Some states have found themselves in need of people who know a 60-year-old programming language called COBOL to retrofit the antiquated government systems now struggling to process the deluge of ...

The COBOL programming language was created in 1959 and has been widely seen as obsolete for decades. Yet there are still a fair number of software systems based on the language. The economic stresses ...

Ten years before man walked on the moon, a group of software engineers created the Common Business-Oriented Language—better know as Cobol—to standardize business computer programming. Not long after, ...

You’d think a computer programming language created in 1959 would be outdated — but you’d be incredibly wrong. Most people know Java and C++, but good ol’ COBOL is still alive and kicking. In the US, ...

The state of New Jersey is seeking volunteers with knowledge of how to code COBOL to aid in the coronavirus outbreak, according to the governor’s request on Monday. COBOL is a much older programming ...