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FORTRAN and COBOL were popular at that point and used for “real programming.” The BASIC-based COBOL development system was designed for teaching purposes.

Specifically, a half-century old programming language, COBOL (which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language), can’t handle the demand.

Although Watts studied several programming languages at school, including Visual Basic, C and Java, she naturally gravitated to Cobol. “It was the mainframe that came easier to me,” she says.

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Visual Cobol R3, released ...

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Visual Cobol R3, released ...

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 ...