Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 212 views
Even people with skills in COBOL — the once predominant language — are becoming more difficult to find. Most programmers no longer learn COBOL in school; … MORE
Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 404 views
COBOL’s place in the enterprise and on the mainframes of businesses around the world remains a function of the language’s ever-expanding horizons. … MORE
Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 196 views
Cobol, the time-tested computer language, which critics have periodically pronounced dead only to see it springing back to life each time, celebrated its … MORE
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 90 views
Last Thursday, May 28, was cobol’s 50th birthday. If you didn’t gather around your data processing device to celebrate this technological … MORE
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As Alex Handy lays out in the first of this three-part series on “COBOL at 50,” the language has not only survived, it has thrived in the face of a lifetime … MORE
Posted by Mike on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 110 views
Fifty years after its initial specifications were laid out, COBOL continues to be the language that would not die. While new COBOL projects … MORE
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Even if you are a ‘semi-literate’ in the languages of computing, you would be familiar with COBOL. And the venerable computer language, which was invented … MORE
Posted by Mike on Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 155 views
Cobol, the venerable computer language so beloved of Y2K-fearing businesses, has hit 50 years young today, having been invented on the 28th of May 1959 … more here.