The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

Investors reacted to Anthropic’s assertion that Claude Code could streamline legacy COBOL modernization, raising concerns about pressure on IBM’s high‑margin mainframe services despite longstanding ...

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COBOL was associated with the Y2K phenomenon at the turn of the century, a software problem arising from the inability of computers to switch dates to the 21st century. Thousands of COBOL programmers ...

If COBOL seems as antiquated as the manual typewriter, you’re thinking about it wrong, researchers say. The workhorse coding language developed in 1959 was built to process massive numbers of ...

IBM still profits from mainframes running decades-old COBOL systems. Anthropic says AI can migrate that software elsewhere. IBM stock was down 10% on Monday afternoon after Anthropic published a blog ...

The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask the ...

The market's knee-jerk reaction makes enough superficial sense. Anthropic's AI-powered computer-coding platform Claude can easily help modernize complicated programs written in COBOL (Common ...