A lot of Cobol-based applications have a plot line similar to the first Star Trek movie. In it, the crew of the Enterprise discovers a huge, intelligent cloud they called “Veeger.” It turns out (plot ...
The legacy programming language that refuses to die is still powering millions of daily transactions, but the difficulties of maintaining and integrating Cobol mainframes make the case for ...
COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...