Ventilators, retired doctors, N95 face masks — all have been in high demand from heads of state and U.S. governors, but now you can add COBOL programmers to that pandemic response list. That's right, ...
Some states have found themselves in need of people who know a 60-year-old programming language called COBOL to retrofit the antiquated government systems now struggling to process the deluge of ...
US States Need COBOL Programmers to Help Them Handle Aging Systems The coronavirus pandemic is putting a strain on 40-year-old mainframes running COBOL, and New Jersey, Kansas, and Connecticut all ...
With states issuing pleas for volunteer coders, we set out to learn more about the woman-invented language powering the mainframe computers that process unemployment claims, and why there’s a shortage ...