The big picture: COBOL is decades old yet it still dominates our IT ecosystem and even the economy. But a replacement must be found, if only because the number of developers that can work on the ...

In April 2020, New Jersey’s governor, Phil Murphy, stepped up to a microphone and told journalists that he was amazed the state still ran its unemployment system on COBOL — a 60-year-old programming ...

Let me tell you about a hot Web scripting language. It’s been ported to almost every computer architecture ever made; its speed and readability are legendary. It’s known to be good with databases.