It's 60-plus years old and there are better and more modern programming languages out there, but COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) is still with us. Not only.
According to IBM's Z Software VP, Skyla Loomis, Watsonx is a "developer assistant tool" that uses AI but can't perform every task independently. The generative AI service.
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An alarmingly large portion of the world's business and finance systems run on COBOL, and only a small community of programmers know it. IBM thinks Watson can help, but it's not guaranteed.