Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...

There has been a sudden rise in COBOL specialists among Banks and insurance firms, and they are ready to pay higher salaries s to attract and retain developers with COBOL skills.

Mainframe computers running code dating back to the 1960s are still vital to some banks, airlines and government departments, but the skilled engineers familiar with their COBOL computer language are ...