Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point' Version 15 of the GNU ...

Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their deep-rooted role in critical ...

Trump drew laughs during his congressional address Tuesday when he alleged that the Social Security Administration had ...

COBOL is the hottest programming language of 2020. Learn how it powers the world's mainframe computers in 100 seconds. Doug Ford's landslide win sets stage for Trump fight Chris Stapleton Passes ...

Koopa is a parser generator designed for COBOL. The COBOL parser can handle source files in isolation (no preprocessing required) and doesn't mind the presence of CICS/SQL fragments. The grammar is ...

At the heart of this story lies COBOL, a programming language that has been Social Security's backbone for decades. COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, was developed in the 1950s and has ...

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security's software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete ...

Languages: English. Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics ...

I saw this claim easily debunked over the weekend, but Wired has a good writeup of it. Basically, the programming language that these systems are written in (COBOL) often uses an arbitrary date as a ...