Have you ever wondered what powers the banking systems behind your ATM transactions and credit card payments? Well, there is a good chance that a 66-year-old programming language called COBOL is doing ...

The week Anthropic's COBOL blog post vaporized $40 billion from IBM's market cap, I was debugging a PIC clause parser. I spent the past six months building a COBOL migration tool called Easy COBOL ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

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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. After all, ...

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This repository contains basic information and concepts of COBOL. It also includes some practice programs I completed while learning COBOL. Why COBOL? I had a brain fart and decided to learn the ...