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I'm not convinced Anthropic's new COBOL coding tool is an actual threat to IBM

Anthropic’s AI-powered computing-coding agent Claude appears easily capable of competing with one of IBM’s core businesses. Worries of this threat sent IBM stock careening on Monday. A deeper dive ...
ExtremeTech

IBM Launches New COBOL Training Initiative, as Elderly Programmers Answer the Call for Help

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 ...
ZDNet

If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?

Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...
ZDNet

This old programming language is much more important than you might expect. Here's why

New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that there are upwards of 800 billion lines of COBOL code being used by organizations and institutes worldwide, some three ...