The programming language COBOL , developed in 1959, is widely used in the financial, automotive, and medical industries because it uses a command syntax that is similar to natural language.

Some states have called on programmers who know the programming language COBOL to help their computers process unemployment claims in the wake of COVID-19.

Hong Kong's financial-services sector, distressed by a lack of Cobol (Common Business-Oriented Language) software programmers, will face an even tighter supply next year.

Want in on an amazing fact? Eighty percent of the world's daily business transactions rely on a 59-year-old programming language called Cobol, short for "Common Business Oriented Language." Global ...

Cobol, that mainstay of business programming throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, is not going away anytime soon. In a Computerworld survey early this year of IT managers at 352 companies, 62% ...

A casual scene from the 1984 movie ' Terminator ' revealed the creator of the code for the system used in the film. Also, since the code was written in the programming language COBOL developed in ...