Yet, despite decades of continuous transformation, some critics still cling to the myth that mainframes are outdated, ...

Everything from the code that issues Social Security numbers to the payment schedules are written in COBOL, which was created in the 1950s, but the DOGE team seems to believe it can make a snap ...

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For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern ...

Newer languages are obviously far more powerful and diverse, but updates to COBOL over time have slowly improved this legacy language's modern usability, and CobolCraft highlights just how much ...

Wired reports that one of DOGE’s many government initiatives is an attempt to rewrite the Social Security Administration codebase in a more modern programming language in just a few months.

Over a decade ago, fewer than one in four colleges offered COBOL classes. Thinking of dates, that’s not the only data in that codebase kept in formats incompatible with modern languages.

SSA’s reliance on COBOL has persisted for a reason: its stability and reliability in processing vast amounts of financial transactions. Rushing a transition to a modern system without the ...

The Department of Government Efficiency aims to migrate the SSA's infrastructure away from its decades-old COBOL programming language in just a few months. Experts warn that such an aggressive ...