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After four decades, the future of a once revolutionary operating system is clouded, but its legacy will endurernrnForty years ago thisrnsummer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one...

I received a short-term COBOL programming assignment at a software house in Albany that I could do over spring break. There was one problem: I didn't know COBOL. But lack of cash is a powerful motivator

About 200 citizen lobbyists called for the US Congress to require that electronic voting machines include paper-trail records when the group descended on Washington, DC, this week.

What is a programmer? My definition is someone who is in full control of the computer. With that definition, do programmers still exist?

Peter Harris, the creator of ADPAC and founder of the company that subsequently changed its name to ADPAC Corp., calls himself "America's senior programmer." Harris, now 74 and the company's chief technology officer, recently spoke with Computerworld U.S. about what may well be the oldest software company in the world still operating under its founding leadership.

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Should your developers use an IDE to develop software? If you think that discussion ended years ago, think again. The voluminous response to my Aug. 30 column proves that the debate rages on.