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If you've gotten cash from an ATM, you've interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here's why this old programming language will probably outlive us all.

Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of ...

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Newer languages are obviously far more powerful and diverse, but updates to COBOL over time have slowly ... require large amounts of specialized code to make them behave properly," but "some ...

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COBOL was developed in the 1950s by a private ... In the decades since, private-sector businesses have moved away from the language. The code is difficult and costly to maintain, and was built ...