Languages: English. Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics ...

That could bring members of the organization face-to-face with something they’ve potentially never seen before: COBOL, or common business-oriented language. COBOL was developed in the 1950s by a ...

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Wired magazine reported that the number of people in the 150-year age bracket may have to do with the programming language used by the SSA, known as COBOL, or the Common Business Oriented Language.

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Politically that is never going to happen. It turns out that the confusion most likely resulted from some idiosyncrasies in the COBOL programming in which the Social Security system was originally ...

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL programming language, which doesn’t use a specific format for dates. This means that some entries with ...

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