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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 ...

Despite its age, COBOL remains the critical backbone of the global financial system, handling trillions daily. As its ...

A new deal is available for 96% off the Enterprise COBOL Programming Bundle. This 2 course bundle contains 14 hours of instruction on how to program in Cobol for the enterprise. As shown by recent ...

If COBOL seems as antiquated as the manual typewriter, you’re thinking about it wrong, researchers say. The workhorse coding language developed in 1959 was built to process massive numbers of ...

GT Software, a provider of technology solutions for enterprise modernization, has announced the general availability of its latest releases of the NetCOBOL compiler solutions - NetCOBOL for Windows ...

1959: A meeting at the Pentagon lays the foundations for the computer language that will later be known as COBOL, which goes on to become a mainstay of business computing for the next four decades.

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 ...

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15 is moving forward as a planned update to the series, with a new front end for Cobol. The upgrade also is set to bring improvements to C and C++ development. GCC 15 is ...

ONE TOPIC that few people write about these days is Cobol. Aside from the slew of Y2K articles a couple years ago, Cobol has not mustered much attention in recent times. Although Cobol won’t be ...