I have listened to several presentations (and I think for more than one project) about porting IBM mainframe programs to cheaper hardware by translating the binary to, e.g., C and then compiling that ...

Can you tell me the difference between COBOL, VS-COBOL-II and MFCOBOL? 1. COBOL is a generic term that's used to describe the programming language, the compilers, runtime libraries, the object code, ...

Major release of the open-source compiler collection also includes vectorization improvements and faster compiling of very large input files. GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15.1 has arrived with ...

Old languages never die, they just get ported to a new runtime. Here’s a look at a new open source project for .NET that can help modernize Cobol. As much as enterprise IT evolves, we’re left running ...

Once every decade or so, the call goes out for Common Business-Oriented Language or COBOL programmers. Although over 60 years old, the language is still in use today. COBOL programmers are needed ...

IBM has announced COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1, bringing IBM's COBOL compilation technologies and capabilities to the Linux on x86 environment. According to the IBM announcement, COBOL for Linux on x86 ...

Apple never had 64bit PowerPC laptops. Which means there never was the situation when someone may release purely 64bit app, they had to provide dual-mode apps. That's what allowed it to switch, ...