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News, Articles and Resources on COBOL

• 3/16/26 COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages
  The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.
• 2/23/26 IBM posts steepest daily drop since 2000 after Anthropic says AI can modernize COBOL
• 3/30/25 DOGE apparently wants to replace COBOL at the US Social Security Fund
• 3/10/25 United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby jokes on COBOL and its use in FAA
• 2/26/25 Banks will "maybe" be done with COBOL... in ten years
• 2/7/25 From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem
• 6/11/24 Cobol knowledge crisis threatens Dutch financial systems

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