AI may assist shrinking pool of coders hold outdated applications working

Mainframe computer systems operating code courting again to the Sixties are nonetheless important to some banks, airways and authorities departments, however the expert engineers aware of their COBOL laptop language are largely useless or retired. Now researchers say AI might be able to fill this abilities hole and assist keep or exchange these antiquated but important programs.

COBOL dates again to 1959 and was designed particularly for giant, centralised mainframe computer systems, which perform bulk information processing for giant organisations. When…