The governor of New Jersey is asking for urgent help with COBOL, a 61-year-old programming language. Here's why it's causing problems with unemployment systems, and why it's so hard to replace. (IBM)

The governor of New Jersey is asking for urgent help with COBOL, a 61-year-old programming language. Here's why it's causing problems with unemployment systems, and why it's so hard to replace. (IBM)

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· Earlier this month, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy announced he was seeking programmers with experience in the COBOL language to help the state's software systems deal with the huge spike in unemployment claims. 
· COBOL is a 61-year-old programming language for mainframes that was made obsolete a long time ago — but...

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