It’s very difficult to program, it doesn’t do much. COBOL programmers are somewhat scarce.” Roberson started her job nine weeks ago with a mandate to upgrade the system, but the pandemic hit ...

Clearly, there needed to be an easier language for programming those hulking early mainframes. That language, named in September 1959, became Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL). The credit ...

Specifically, a half-century old programming language, COBOL (which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language), can't handle the demand. Between March 15 and April, the federal labor department ...