AI, IBM and COBOL
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COBOL remains a critical language for many Indian IT companies, particularly those supporting global banking, insurance, and retail systems
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IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares are tanking 11% on Anthropic programming language threat
COBOL is a computer language used for business data processing and IBM is a leader in that area.
IBM shares plunged over 13% after AI startup Anthropic announced a tool to modernize COBOL, a key IBM programming language.
COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there's over 800 billion lines of COBOL in use on production systems ...
International Business Machines Corp. shares plunged on Monday, after the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said its Claude Code tool can help with modernizing COBOL, a dated programming language that’s mainly run on IBM computers.
For effectively all new development, the COBOL language is irrelevant. Many seem to think that Java is irrelevant, too, but I don't think that's the case. The problems that the languages were trying to solve are different, and Java's still appropriate for ...