If you've done some programming on an original Commodore 64, it's basically that one.

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

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Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was ...

Even with the current COBOL 2014 standard, it is still essentially the same primarily transaction-oriented language, while adding support for structured, procedural and object-oriented programming ...

Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion ...

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to migrate the Social Security Administration’s computer systems from the COBOL programming language to something more modern ...

What Is COBOL? COBOL, developed in the 1950s through a public-private partnership, was designed as an English-like programming language for business applications.

COBOL was developed in the 1950s by a private-public partnership that included the Pentagon and IBM. The goal was to create a universal, English-like programming language for business applications.

COBOL at 60: the past, present and future of the enduring and evolving programming language In an age of constant innovation, where new trends are fleeting, COBOL has remained an enduring force ...