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 ...

Despite these issues, COBOL persists for several reasons. First, replacing billions of lines of code across the banking industry is a tremendous challenge.

Watsonx Code Assistant for Z is meant for use in application modernization, app development, large libraries and data retrieval; in particular, it is designed to make translations from COBOL to ...

The resulting Java code emitted by watsonx Code Assistant for Z will be object-oriented but will still interoperate with the rest of the COBOL application IBM claimed, as well as with key services ...

COBOL, which debuted in 1959, was a leading language in the earliest era of computing and there are still billions of lines of COBOL code running production applications today.

Created in 1959, Cobol was designed to simplify the process of writing programs by using a syntax more easily understandable by non-programmers. A considerable amount of Cobol code still runs today.

IBM has built a generative AI-powered code assistant (watsonx) that helps convert all that dusty old COBOL code to a more modern language, thereby saving coders countless hours of reprogramming.

A shareware DOS compiler (Cobol 650) is available from www.flexus.com; however, it is outdated, there is no known source code, and the author died several years ago, according to Flexus.

IBM's mainframes are still widely used, and many applications run on ancient COBOL code. With a dwindling pool of programmers capable of modernizing COBOL applications, IBM's new AI code assistant ...

It’s even pervasive throughout the federal government, which has used the same system since 1973—built with approximately 1 million lines of Cobol code—to process student aid applications.

To be fair to the author supporting COBOL code might make more sense in Romania, maybe they have a lot of jobs where they convert over mainframe applications to web applications.