Social Security's COBOL Software Comes Under Scrutiny
Elon Musk's investigation of federal government systems highlighted Social Security's reliance on software developed in the ...
If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?
If you've gotten cash from an ATM, you've interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here's why this old programming language will probably outlive us all.
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New Social Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years old getting checks
The news organization WIRED first reported on the agency's use of COBOL, a programming language which is more than 60 years ...
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No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
which was largely written in COBOL, a 60-year-old programming language that undergirds SSA’s databases as well as systems from many other US government agencies. COBOL is rarely used today ...
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Musk’s minions confuse their COBOL
They’re programmed with an old version of the language COBOL that is nearly as old as me. It all comes down to history. On May 20, 1875, the International Bureau of Weight and Measures ...
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GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL is out
Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point' Version 15 of the GNU ...
Computing4y
So, should I learn COBOL?
So, should developers be looking to a 60-year old language for their next job ... a concerted effort to steer a new generation of COBOL programmers through the education system.
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Cobol skills still prized by CIOs
IT students at the University of Limerick are being offered Cobol courses Cobol has long been written off as old hat ... a cornerstone of business-oriented programming because so many commercial ...