The 65-year-old computer system at the heart of American business
The programming language known as COBOL turns 65 this year. We couldn\u2019t help noticing that\u2019s right around retirement age, but COBOL is nowhere near retirement. It remains a mainstay of IT operations at U.S. government agencies, businesses and financial institutions. Yet the programming language, which is older than the Beatles, is no longer taught at most universities. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance tech journalist who has written about this aging slab of digital infrastructure. Marketplace\u2019s Lily Jamali asked him whether our continuing reliance on COBOL is a problem.
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