Following the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles' outage on March 20, Gov. Jeff Landry declared a State of Emergency Friday morning. In the executive order, Landry extended the expiration date and ...

The share of searches per million for the programming language COBOL on the job site Indeed grew 707% during the coronavirus crisis. While job seekers are interested in the language — largely used for ...

IN THE NEARLY five years I have been writing for InfoWorld, never has an article of mine generated such incredible response as “Application transformation.” The article presented an overview of two ...

The COBOL programming language for IBM mainframes. In 1994, IBM dropped support of OS/VS COBOL, which conformed to ANSI 68 and 74 standards and limited a program's address space to 16 bits. IBM's VS ...

Here's an unexpected side effect of the pandemic: increased demand for COBOL programmers. The need seems to be particularly acute among states whose unemployment systems were originally written in the ...

In our mania for the new, it’s convenient to forget just how long the “old” stays with us. Take COBOL, for example. The venerable programming language turns 60 this month and, as Steven J.

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.

Python is still the most popular programming language, but Cobol has become more popular again this year because of the strain unemployment benefits systems have been put under during US coronavirus ...

IBM is rushing to create new COBOL programming resources as governors across the United States call for new programmers to deal with a crush of citizens filing claims. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...