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- Title
An Apology to COBOL: It's easy to rag on a programming language built in 1959, but is old tech really the problem?
- Authors
Miller, Ben
- Abstract
The article focuses on New Jersey's governor, Phil Murphy, stepped up to a microphone and told journalists that he was amazed the state still ran its unemployment system on COBOL a 60-year-old programming language. Topics include the state was having trouble keeping up with the massive surge of unemployment insurance applications coming in amid pandemic lockdowns, and the volunteers who knew that archaic language to use its own decrepit technology.
- Subjects
PROGRAMMING languages; MULTI-factor authentication; UNEMPLOYMENT insurance claims; ELECTRONIC data processing; BATCH processing
- Publication
Government Technology, 2021, Vol 34, Issue 2, p38
- ISSN
1043-9668
- Publication type
Article