How to Write an Excel File from the COBOL Program. The COBOL programming language's main strength is its ability to write a wide variety of data files useful for small business, including ...

COBOL, short for Common Business-Oriented Language, was one of the earliest computer languages. It was also, along with Fortran, one of the first programming languages to be based on English words.

New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that there are upwards of 800 billion lines of COBOL code being used by organizations and institutes worldwide, some ...

Although Watts studied several programming languages at school, including Visual Basic, C and Java, she naturally gravitated to Cobol. “It was the mainframe that came easier to me,” she says.

A new poll of university course leaders has revealed that students aren't being taught legacy programming languages like Cobol, even though they know businesses want it.

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Visual Cobol R3, released ...