Forever COBOL

A seemingly dead programming language from the middle of the previous century is being hyper-charged by the latest and most advanced LLMs.

By all measures, COBOL, the common business-oriented language that originated in the late 1950s, was a pretty big success. You probably haven’t heard of it. Those of us born about the same time as this latent computing language were exposed to it in the late 70s and 80s, and especially on college campuses where mainframes had gotten their first footings…