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We’re all at the mercy of this decades-old programming language, but we’ve been thinking about it all wrong

There is no question that the world has a COBOL problem. Our banks, governments and enterprise systems are propped up by a 60-year-old programming language that fewer and fewer people understand.

Dragged under the spotlight by an incident in the US back in April, the COBOL problem is being dealt with as a simple skills shortage. As such, both IBM and Micro Focus (which play an outsized role in the upkeep of COBOL) have launched separate training initiatives, in a bid to incentivise developers to return to this no longer fashionable language.