Stack Overflow, a knowledge community on technologies such as programming and computers, has released the results of a survey of approximately 65,000 programmers around the world. The rankings of ...

A 1959 programming language, COBOL, is powering global finance and government systems. As experienced programmers retire, companies face a talent crisis. This has created a lucrative opportunity for ...

Why programmers for a 60-year-old language to help states get unemployment benefits to people. Writer Esther Shein talks about it with TechRepublic’s Karen Roby. If you can only read one tech story a ...

The COBOL programming language was created in 1959 and has been widely seen as obsolete for decades. Yet there are still a fair number of software systems based on the language. The economic stresses ...