Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...

IBM shares dropped sharply by 13.1% to $223.39 when the market closed on Monday, making it the company’s biggest one-day fall since October 2000, when the stock had fallen about 15.5%. The news was ...

Anthropic has introduced Claude Code, an artificial intelligence tool designed to automate the analysis and modernization of COBOL systems that power critical infrastructure across finance, airlines, ...

The big picture: COBOL is decades old yet it still dominates our IT ecosystem and even the economy. But a replacement must be found, if only because the number of developers that can work on the ...

On Tuesday, Anthropic published tools that let Claude read, analyze and translate legacy COBOL into modern languages like Java and Python. By the end of the trading day, investors had wiped roughly ...

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IBM shares tumbled after Anthropic blogged about how Claude Code could help businesses modernize legacy systems that use an older prgramming language.