Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...

Have you ever wanted to just cut and paste some of that legacy COBOL code from mainframe applications into your latest Web application? No? Well, Romanian Web developer Bizău Ionică has developed a ...

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...

The federal student loan service center Campus Partners, an offshoot of Sallie Mae, wanted to revamp its mainframe systems to make loan data accessible to customers via the Web. With millions of lines ...

Consider the following items allegedly gathered from various Gartner reports: * There are 310 billion lines of legacy code operating in the world (65% of all software). * Five billion lines of new ...

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COMMENTARY-- Many enterprises have generated COBOL applications involving huge investments in both money and resources over the last 20 years. The last thing they want to do is throw this investment ...

1952 – “Amazing" Grace Hopper begins development of natural language programming languages that would lead to Flowmatic, the precursor of Cobol. 1959 – First Cobol specifications completed in December ...

Despite the proliferation of digital banking apps, the banking industry still runs almost half its systems on a 1950s programming language, which makes it difficult for financial institutions to ...

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