Bill Hinshaw's phone has been ringing off the hook lately. From his home in Gainesville, Texas, which Hinshaw describes as "horse country," he runs a group called the COBOL Cowboys. It's an ...

The programming language known as COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, turns 65 this year. We couldn’t help noticing that’s right around retirement age, but COBOL is nowhere near ...

Are Cobol programmers dinosaurs, or are they vital to maintain all of the Cobol apps still operational in mainframe environments? Given that Cobol can be compiled to run on Windows, Unix and Linux ...

State officials say aging computers systems that rely on a pre-Internet programming language may be causing delays in processing jobless benefits.... 'COBOL Cowboys' Aim To Rescue Sluggish State ...